in reply to Dereferencing code refs with & vs. ->()

The arrow form wasn't added until 5.004, between release-candidate-1 and release-candidate-2, on a bet. And I won the bet.

So, if you're looking at ancient documentation, you'll see &$coderef instead of the modern arrow form.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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Re^2: Dereferencing code refs with & vs. ->()
by shiza (Hermit) on Sep 23, 2005 at 18:11 UTC
    Haha, that's hilarious. I'm glad you won. :)
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