Confusion reigns, for me at least, in the land of perl data structures. After hours of frustrated fiddling (ooh matron!) I must again humbly beg for the monks assitance.
Why oh why is this the case:
my $reqs = 
[ HTTP::Request->new('GET', "http://www.sun.com"),
HTTP::Request->new('GET', "http://www.perlmonks.org")  ];
#the above list of requests is not equivalent to:
@urls = ("www.sun.com","www.perlmonks.org");
my $reqs = 
[ HTTP::Request->new('GET', $urls[0]),
  HTTP::Request->new('GET', $urls[1])  ];

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I've tried what seem like all the obvious syntactic booboos, can someone please explain whats going on?
Thanks,
Ntav

NAPH (not another perl hacker)
P.S. prolog has it's own "programming blues". does such a thing exist for perl?

In reply to more string / list confusion by Ntav

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