On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 01:06, Chap Harrison <c...@pobox.com> wrote: > > On Mar 13, 2009, at 7:52 AM, Jenda Krynicky wrote: > >> That's prettymuch it, except that it's not an array of aliases, but >> LIST of aliases. The difference is subtle, but important. >> See http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq4.html#What-is-the-difference- >> between-a-list-and-an-array%3f and >> http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=130861 > > Thanks - I've read the FAQ several times in the past without really getting > it, but the perlmonks thread looks promising. It IS subtle, all right. :-/ snip
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