Re^2: Why do you need to escape a string used as a paramater?

Could we consider a reference "\" in Perl the same thing as a "&" in C, for example ?

Tomtom

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Re^3: Why do you need to escape a string used as a paramater? by Aragorn (Curate) on May 24, 2005 at 09:38 UTC
Superficially, yes. "Under water", there's a lot more going on with Perl references, like automatic memory management. Arjen	[reply]