RE: Fido and Amelia

I stopped in a bookstore at lunch to see if I could figure out your joke. (I don't feel like replacing my Camel book yet. I don't think enough has changed.) And the line says,

$fido = new Camel 'Amelia';
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or something like that. Doesn't that make $fido the new book? Why not Fuchsia, Blue, and Fido?

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RE: RE: Fido and Amelia by BooK (Curate) on Sep 09, 2000 at 03:36 UTC
That's it! But if you look in Fido, page 5 or so, you'll notice there's a similar line in a list of examples, that says: `$fido = new Camel 'Fido';` So now the "`new Camel`" is Amelia, and then it was Fido. We are interested in the Camel, not in the scalar variable that holds a reference to it... And, well, a lot has changed (in the book, if not in Perl), for example, I heard that the chapter about regular expressions is new and very good (and probably written by Jon).	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Fido and Amelia by Dominus (Parson) on Nov 20, 2000 at 05:55 UTC
Incidentally, I once asked Larry what the camel's name was, and he told me it was named Amelia.	[reply]
RE: (3) Fido and Amelia by Adam (Vicar) on Sep 09, 2000 at 03:52 UTC
Ah! I hadn't spotted $fido on page 5 of my book. Ok then, I'm convinced. Fido and Amelia it is. But I still have little intention of buying Amelia anytime soon, as Fido is sufficient for my needs at the moment.	[reply]


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