in reply to Perl 5.12.2 Data Structures

Thanks guys.

Mr. Anonymous - your squigglies worked like a champ, although I would swear I already tried them - and every other darn key on the keyboard too.

Stevieb - I'm sorry - precise language is important, but sometimes us "hep cats" who cut our teeth on GE 235*s with paper tape on a Teletype sometimes regress to the "flash cant" of aeons past.

I have had problems getting the knack of some of these complex data structures because there seems to have been a lot of changes since 5.12, and I could never get things to work reliably on different systems.

In case you're wondering, I'm working on a big improvement to the background search for: http://www.harleykmodel.com/craigslist

Dave

* http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/GE/GE.235.1964.102646091.pdf

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Re^2: Perl 5.12.2 Data Structures
by haukex (Archbishop) on Sep 23, 2016 at 08:03 UTC

    Hi hennesse,

    Many of the examples in the 5.24 perldsc just do not work.

    ... there seems to have been a lot of changes since 5.12

    There have been a few changes since v5.12 (for example, the addition of the Postfix Dereference Syntax and Key/Value Hash Slices, and for a while there was the experimental and now-removed "autoderef" feature), but as far as I can remember they've all been backwards compatible (and perldsc hasn't had any significant changes in the code examples for 15 years). Could you point out the examples in perldsc that don't work for you?

    Thanks,
    -- Hauke D

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