IIRC Perl6 does this. Or maybe that was some other language I was looking at recently. Certainly it's a good idea - what else could a programmer have meant if he passes a reference to an array?

It's just one of those things in Perl5 that could and should be tweaked, like the 'No comma after filehandle in print statement' error. If perl can detect the problem, why can't it do what I want? (The answer, of course, is that I haven't gotten off my arse and patched perl).

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In reply to Re: Consistency, syntax, and little minds by jepri
in thread Consistency, syntax, and little minds by belg4mit

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