Re^2: On References to the Unnamed

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Re^3: On References to the Unnamed by jdporter (Paladin) on Mar 15, 2005 at 19:53 UTC
`sub new_scalar_ref { \my $x }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: On References to the Unnamed by gaal (Parson) on Mar 16, 2005 at 05:43 UTC
Ha! Cool. Hard to beat that. :) Inlined that'd be `do { \my $x }`, I suppose. Update: As Anonymous Monk mentions below. This kinda makes me wonder what `gensym` did except maybe to encapsulate this?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: On References to the Unnamed by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Mar 16, 2005 at 13:16 UTC
Great minds think alike. :-) As mentioned in The Lighter Side of Perl Culture (Part IV): Golf: `: OK. Still, it'd be nice to get anonymous scalars somehow. The Huffman encoding of that is do{\my$x}. -- Larry Wall on p5p, 30 April 1999` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: On References to the Unnamed by gaal (Parson) on Mar 16, 2005 at 22:41 UTC
Re^3: On References to the Unnamed by leriksen (Curate) on Mar 21, 2005 at 00:39 UTC
Another is in Getopt::Long (example slightly golfed) `GetOptions('in\|i=s' => \my $indir, 'out\|o=s' => \my $outfile, 'log\|l=s' => \my $logfile, 'cp\|c=s' => \my $cp, 'help\|?' => \my $help, man => \my $man) or pod2usage(2);` [download] ...it is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong. - Warren Buffet	[reply] [d/l]