Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!convex!usenet From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: While learning PERL... a suggestion Keywords: perl file learn suggest Message-ID: <1991Jan26.085952.24994@convex.com> Date: 26 Jan 91 08:59:52 GMT References: <1991Jan19.003519.23569@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Jan24.100539.20366@iwarp.intel.com> <1204@etnibsd.UUCP> Sender: usenet@convex.com (news access account) Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: pixel.convex.com From the keyboard of vsh@etnibsd.UUCP (Steve Harris): :When you say *BAR = *FOO, you're creating a symbol table entry "BAR" :which points to the same struct as the symbol table entry "FOO". So :that a reference to $BAR is exactly the same as a reference to $FOO, :ditto for @FOO and @BAR, etc. : : : FOO ----+ -> scalar : \ -> array : -> struct -> associative array : / -> subroutine : BAR ----+ -> filehandle There are also formats. --tom -- "Hey, did you hear Stallman has replaced /vmunix with /vmunix.el? Now he can finally have the whole O/S built-in to his editor like he always wanted!" --me (Tom Christiansen )