Re^3: Perl Idioms Explained - ${\$obj->method} and @{[sort @list]}

[adrianh]

in reply to Re: Re: Perl Idioms Explained - ${\$obj->method} and @{[sort @list]}
in thread Perl Idioms Explained - ${\$obj->method} and @{[sort @list]}

Read Arrays are not lists and Scalars, Lists, and Arrays and repeat to yourself three times - "('foo', 'bar', 'baz') is not an array" ;-)

I'm with Abigail-II. The \ operator has lots of weird cases that surprise you. For example:

\@foo       # reference to array @foo
\(@foo, $a) # list of reference to array @foo and scalar $a
\(@foo)     # list of references to contents of @foo

[bradb]

Read Arrays are not lists and Scalars, Lists, and Arrays and repeat to yourself three times - "('foo', 'bar', 'baz') is not an array" ;-)

I can't be blamed if you don't read my post. ;-) I didn't say ('foo', 'bar', 'baz') was an array, I said If I ask for a reference to an array that contains ('foo', 'bar', 'baz').

HTH.

[adrianh]

My bad ;-)

However, I think the point about the non-obvious behaviour of the \ operator still stands.