On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 23:03 -0800, Danny Yoo wrote:
> > > There are tradeoffs here. On the one hand, Python folks get caught
> > > off guard when they first encounter list aliasing. On the other, Perl
> > > folks get caught off guard when they first try to make a hash whose
> > > values are thems
> > There are tradeoffs here. On the one hand, Python folks get caught
> > off guard when they first encounter list aliasing. On the other, Perl
> > folks get caught off guard when they first try to make a hash whose
> > values are themselves lists. *grin*
> >
> WOW. Great explanation. Don't wor
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 22:57 -0800, Danny Yoo wrote:
> > > The terminology that the original poster uses ("references to another
> > > object") sounds a lot like the original usage of symbolic "soft"
> > > references in Perl.
> > > (http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/pod/perlref.html)
> > >
> > > P
> > The terminology that the original poster uses ("references to another
> > object") sounds a lot like the original usage of symbolic "soft"
> > references in Perl.
> > (http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/pod/perlref.html)
> >
> > Perl programmers, for the most part, avoid them now because they'
