Re^3: array reference madness

"Extra-referencing?!!" I was thinking the \& and the \@ matched, wrt the "type" of the return value. So you've given me something to think about -- I'll try and apply this. Thanks much! ps. the exercise is 5-2. I like the book, it's well structured ;)

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Re^4: array reference madness by Anonymous Monk on Mar 15, 2009 at 07:03 UTC
`use O qw' Deparse -p '; print \&reference; # real ref print \&call(1); # ref to return value print \( &call(1) ); # same as above, ref to return print \( call(1) ); # same as above, ref to return __END__ print((\&reference)); print(\(&call(1))); print(\(&call(1))); print(\(call(1))); __DATA__` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^4: array reference madness
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 15, 2009 at 07:03 UTC

use O qw' Deparse -p ';
print \&reference; # real ref
print \&call(1);  # ref to return value
print \( &call(1) ); # same as above, ref to return
print \( call(1) ); # same as above, ref to return
__END__
print((\&reference));
print(\(&call(1)));
print(\(&call(1)));
print(\(call(1)));
__DATA__
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