doran wrote:

I prefer the former, since that's the way I'm used to dereferencing other things.

Yes, you and most everybody else. I've rarely seen the & version in the last five years.

But just about all examples I see use the '&' prefix instead of the arrow operator.

Really? Where are those examples? In books dating from 1998?

FWIW, TheDamian recommends the arrow form in Perl Best Practices. So, if nothing else, lots of other Perl programmers will understand what you're doing.

And that's what's most important.

Jim Keenan

In reply to Re: Dereferencing code refs with & vs. ->() by jkeenan1
in thread Dereferencing code refs with & vs. ->() by doran

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