On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Shawn H Corey <shawnhco...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Lists are sequences used by Perl. They are very short lived, seldom
> longer than one statement.

The way I've always liked to explain this is that arrays are the
containers you use to store a list.

As Shawn says, a list is usually pretty ephemeral -- but if you want
it to stick around, you can put it in an array variable.

chrs,
john.

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