Re: Sorting in-place

[pcg]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 09:10:33PM +0200, Abigail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The problem comes from the fact that scalars are passed by value (good
> > idea usually), and perl implements this by copying (usually a good idea as
> > well).
> 
> Oh, really?

yes, I meant (but didn't write, since this is obvious from the discussion
which was about returning vs. not returning): it passes the return values
by copying.

> Perl passes by reference, not value, as is documented in "man perlsub".

But functions are two way: you put something in, you get something out ;)

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