in reply to Re^2: Thx, St. Larry, for the Beauty of Sigils
in thread Thx, St. Larry, for the Beauty of Sigils
I was using my own wording for the distinction.
But sorry "plain variable" is blah.
The fact that other languages do implicit dereferencation in their syntax doesn't make them less plain.
$a, %a and @a are in fact containers for references, to allow such implicit dereferencation. °
So how are containers "plain" now?
But Perl is more explicit* here, which helps understanding what is really happening if you do an assignment a=b in another languages, where they sometimes copy the content or the reference.
Cheers Rolf
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°) e.g. $a[0] is by definition (\@a)->[0]
*) "Explicit is better than implicit" quote from Python blah