On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Robert Stone <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I came across this posting that goes into a lot of detail regarding context: > http://perlhacks.com/2013/12/misunderstanding-context/
But beware if you talk about "context" to a core developer he might misunderstand you. In core there's a special context datastructure, the cx, storing scope information. http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RURBAN/illguts-0.47/index.html#context This article is talking about "gimme", if scalar, list or void (return) context. > Linked in that article is also another interesting posting on the > differences between Arrays and Lists. > http://friedo.com/blog/2013/07/arrays-vs-lists-in-perl This is a very good one. Note that p5p just discussed the addition of a count method for arrays and lists, to get rid of the misleading name scalar @array, and to do the right thing for count(@a, @b); > Personally I find context one of the most fascinating aspects of Perl (Maybe > someone should do a presentation!) and I must admit I've been guilty of > referring to things as being in "Array Context". Does anyone disagree with > these postings or have any additional knowledge to share? -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/ _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/
