in short, an array is inadvertently a list, a list is not necessarily an
array.
just contemplate this, something i'm sure we've all used:
use vars qw($bar $baz)
this is very much a list, but not an array
hth,
Jos Boumans
> You are correct -- I should have read the documention :) However, in
every
> day programming-speak, list and array get tossed about in such a way that
> they become synonymous. A list and an array seem to be effectively the
> same thing -- except that a list is constant and an array is not. You
> might even say that a list is an array that you can't mess with.
