Am I the only one that is still having a problem with references? No matter how much information I read about them, they are still out of my reach. I just finished perlref and I'm still having problems with them.

Do you prefer nice graphics? Effective Perl Programming has a great graphical notation for perl data structures (called PeGS - PErl Graphical Structures). The book used to be available online but that link has been problematic for quite some time. You can check out the Effective Perl course slides here (the PeGS stuff starts on page 55 of the pdf).

merlyn was a co-author of Effective Perl (merlyn can you shed any light onto what happened to the effectiveperl site?).

-derby

In reply to Re: Help with references by derby
in thread Help with references by coldmiser

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