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Brian McCauley  
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 More options May 17 2002, 4:30 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.misc
From: Brian McCauley <nob...@mail.com>
Date: 17 May 2002 08:22:08 +0100
Local: Fri, May 17 2002 3:22 am
Subject: Re: Most obscure feature in Perl

clem...@westminster.ac.uk (Ross Clement) writes:
> What feature of perl (syntax or built in function) is the most obscure/least
> intuitive? By this, I mean a basic, common, feature of the language, not
> a library or mmodule.

Another candiate, the way \ distrbutes over lexical lists.

@r = \(@a); # $r[0] is reference to $a[0], $r[1] to $a[1] etc.
@r = \(@a,@b); # $r[0] is reference to @a, $r[1] to @b

--
     \\   ( )
  .  _\\__[oo
 .__/  \\ /\@
 .  l___\\
  # ll  l\\
 ###LL  LL\\


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