What does @$ stand for?

athanasia has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear monks,

I am trying to understand a code snippet in Win32 - Exe.pm and I bumped into this expression.

if (my $info = $args{info}) {
    my @info = ($self->default_info, @$info);
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What is the meaning of @$? I tried perlvar but no luck and googling did not help me either.

Cheers,
Athanasia

PS. Can someone point out a link where all these not so obvious symbols, such as $$, \$, $@ etc... are collected and explained?

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Re: What does @$ stand for? by ccn (Vicar) on Nov 14, 2008 at 10:21 UTC
Scalar variable `$info` stores a reference to an array. `@$info` or more verbose `@{$info}` is dereference the `$info` to that array. perldoc perlreftut perldoc perlref	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: What does @$ stand for? by toolic (Bishop) on Nov 14, 2008 at 15:01 UTC
References quick reference is a handy, um, reference.	[reply]
Re: What does @$ stand for? by LanX (Saint) on Nov 14, 2008 at 11:06 UTC
> PS. Can someone point out a link where all these not so obvious symbols, such as $$, \$, $@ etc... are collected and explained? just type perldoc perlvar --- Which song? ;)	[reply]