in reply to Re: Adding 2 + 2
in thread Adding 2 + 2

It often strikes me as a little strange (or unfortunate) to use array ref/deref for this. The scalar version is only one character longer:

print "the answer is ${\(2+2)}\n";
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Re^3: Adding 2 + 2
by shmem (Chancellor) on Jan 31, 2007 at 10:24 UTC
    The scalar version is only one character longer
    golfer habits...

    --shmem
    But I might be parling heck.

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