"Mark J. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > On 2003-02-11 at 17:44:08, Mark J. Reed wrote: > > pop @{[@a,@b,@c]} > > > > It creates an anonymous array, then removes the last element, leaving two > > elements in the array - which is irrelevant since the array is > > then discarded completely. > Minor correction: we don't know how many elements are left in the > array - it depends on how many elements were in @a, @b, and @c to > start with. One less than that. :)
These days you need the splat operator to flatten lists: so the above starts out as a list of 3 array-refs, and the pop returns 1 array-ref, leaving 2 in the anon-array -- which then becomes garbage, to be collected sometime.
