RE: RE (tilly) 2: Multiple Levels of Array Dereferencing Have me Stumped

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I was trying to explain "what" that code does and not "why"
however you'r right: my (@list) = @{[@{$_[0]}]}; will just build an extra (useless) copy, i didn't verified it..

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RE (tilly) 4: Multiple Levels of Array Dereferencing Have me Stumped by tilly (Archbishop) on Nov 05, 2000 at 23:34 UTC
It looks to me like metaperl had already figured that out and the confusion was the belief that the extra copy had to do something useful. Which it doesn't.	[reply]

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