I was used to building multi-level data structures in C, but you had to declare everything first, and decide if it was going to be on the stack (with some size limitations), or in the heap (then make sure you free'd everything you'd malloc'd). In Perl? No worries, mate! Just start using the thing you want, and Perl magically makes it spring to life.
The community is pretty awesome too. :)
Alex / talexb / Toronto
For a long time, I had a link in my .sig going to Groklaw. I heard that as of December 2024, this link is dead. Still, thanks to PJ for all your work, we owe you so much. RIP Groklaw -- 2003 to 2013.