Re: [FWP] @$a[0] = 5;

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 04:08:42PM +0200, Roland Bauer wrote:
> I found a similar code and I am quite sure the
> programmer simply wanted to use "$a[0]", however,
> it works and produces no warnings.
> 
> Can someone enlighten me, please?
> 
>  
> use strict;
> use diagnostics;
> 
> #my $a;
> #my $b;
> 
> @$a[0] = 5;
> @$b[0] = 6;
> 
> print @$a[0]; # prints "5"
> 

$a and $b are being used as references to arrays.

Whether or not the programmer needed to do that depends on what is done
with $a and $b elsewhere in the code.

Ronald

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