Re: Re: Re: sub functions, and strings

Why the symbolic reference?

Huh? He didn't say anything about symbolic references. He said "references", and his illustration was as valid for hard references as symbolic ones.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: sub functions, and strings by FamousLongAgo (Friar) on Nov 11, 2002 at 21:17 UTC
You're right - it was just such a weird way to modify an argument that it threw me for a loop. It still risks weird symbolic reference behavior if you accidentally assign a scalar instead of a scalar ref to that variable, so I'll stick to my guns( albeit with less tenacity ).	[reply]