Re: [Boston.pm] dangling part-asiples

[Dan Sugalski]

At 09:56 AM 7/18/2001 -0400, Greg London wrote:
>can someone explain somethig for me, please:
>
>bless \ [@_], $package;
>question: what's the '\' character do?

Takes a reference to the new anonymous array being created. (The 
double-indirection seems silly, but there might be a reason)

>$x = sub { $ {shift()} }   ;
>question: what's the lone '$' do?

De-references the reference that shift() presumably is returning.

                                        Dan

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