Tracy R Reed wrote: > Gus Wirth wrote: >> I suggest reading the man page perlreftut. It clarifies what Perl >> references are and why they exist. In particular, references exist due >> to a deficiency in Perl originating in Perl 4 that didn't allow a hash >> to have anything other than a scalar as a value. > > Interesting. I didn't know this page existed. Yet another way that > python yields more readable code: Python hashes/dictionaries can contain > lists without having to deal with references. In fact, all of the data > structures are nestable. >
Isn't it true that _everything_ in python is a reference? Or, maybe sorta-true? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
