#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; # example 1 my $ref1 = \(qw(one two three)); # should be called in list context # example 2 my @list = qw(one two three); my $ref2 = \@list; # example 3 # returns same as example 1 my $ref3 = \(@list); # should be called in list context print ref $ref1, "\n"; print ref $ref2, "\n"; print ref $ref3, "\n";