Not sure what it would have to... :)

Yeah ... sometimes I get a bit literal about these things. My reasoning (undoubtedly flawed) is along the lines that the square brackets ([]) return a reference to whatever is within those brackets ... and if it's a list that's within those brackets (as stated by the docs), then those square brackets must be returning a reference to that list.

it returns a reference to an anonymous array which has been initialised with references to the list's individual elements/values

Something about that doesn't feel right to me. Do you mean "it returns a reference to an anonymous array which has been initialised with the list's individual elements/values" - and that, in this case, those "elements/values" are actually references ?

It's probably a bit confusing to be asking these sorts of questions in terms of the return of \(@foo). Surely there are simpler constructs that also return a list. Does, eg (1..10) return a list ?

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^6: referencing slices - love that DWIM by syphilis
in thread referencing slices - love that DWIM by GrandFather

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