Now, you've piqued my curiousity. Why on earth would you want to filter out the most powerful syntax tool in Perl since the subroutine?!? References are the sole thing that took Perl from a glorified scripting language to a programming language that rivals the expressibility of almost every other C-like language out there!

In addition, references are not a very complicated concept. Try explaining how C does strings to something, one day. Or, try explaining the friends concept in C++. All of a sudden, references become reeaaaalllly simple.

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In reply to Re: Re: Listen to Tilly ... he knows what's what! by dragonchild
in thread References by Cine

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