Why do you wish to avoid what may be the best tool?

There is one really obvious answer to that. It's the same as wanting to do linked lists in C while avoiding the use of pointers. It takes a bit to wrap one's head around some of these concepts (it took me two months to wrap my head around pointers in C, but, once I did, the whole language became trivial). Avoiding them before you understand them is a bit like avoiding the dark - a bit of fear of the unknown. Part of what we do here, and what the PODs you referenced (no pun intended ;-}) do, is to dispell that lack of understanding so that newer Perl users no longer fear them.

I'd love to see newbie2perl's "advisor" post here as well to dispell his/her fear of the unknown as well :-)

In reply to Re^2: Creating an array of structures? by Tanktalus
in thread Creating an array of structures? by newbie2perl

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