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

["Bicknell, Frank" <fbicknel@cisco.com>]

 > i think he means anonymous array. 

Yes, and annonymous hashes, too.  But since:

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=anonymous

The first definition is "not named" (I would consider "unnamed" to be
equivalent"); looks like he's kinda sorta right.  Ok, they're not lists...
but they used to be! :)

(Is this fun?)
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Frank Bicknell, Sysadmin
Cisco Systems, Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Uri Guttman [SMTP:uri@sysarch.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, September 09, 1999 17:15
> To:	sml@zfx.com
> Cc:	jeffp@crusoe.net; fwp@technofile.org
> Subject:	Re: [FWP] From "The Art of Perl", Ch. 1
> 
> >>>>> "SL" == Steve Lane <sml@zfx.com> writes:
> 
>   SL> what exactly is an "unnamed list"?  (or a named list,
>   SL> for that matter.)
> 
> i think he means anonymous array. and there is no such thing as a named
> list. it is called an array and it is not a list.
> 
> it is simple, you have named arrays, anonymous arrays and lists of
> values. a list of values only exists in an list/array context. otherwise
> it is a sequence of , separated expressions whose value is the last
> evaluated expression.
> 
> uri
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