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in reply to Re^3: Perl Idioms Explained - ${\$obj->method} and @{[sort @list]}
in thread Perl Idioms Explained - ${\$obj->method} and @{[sort @list]}

Read Arrays are not lists and Scalars, Lists, and Arrays and repeat to yourself three times - "('foo', 'bar', 'baz') is not an array" ;-)

I can't be blamed if you don't read my post. ;-) I didn't say ('foo', 'bar', 'baz') was an array, I said If I ask for a reference to an array that contains ('foo', 'bar', 'baz').

HTH.

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Re^5: Perl Idioms Explained - ${\$obj->method} and @{[sort @list]}
by adrianh (Chancellor) on Aug 25, 2003 at 23:58 UTC

    My bad ;-)

    However, I think the point about the non-obvious behaviour of the \ operator still stands.