Re: [FWP] From "The Art of Perl", Ch. 1

[Jeff Pinyan <jeffp@crusoe.net>]

> > I'm looking for some idioms for dealing with arrays, hashes, and unnamed
> > lists.  
> 
> what exactly is an "unnamed list"?  (or a named list,
> for that matter.)

I meant lists that aren't arrays or hashes.  That encompasses return
values from functions, for instance.

	(localtime)[3,4,5]; # list slice, not array slice
	(qw( alpha beta charlie ))[$i]; # list element, not array

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