Re:Why Perl Didn't Win
by EdwardDiego on Monday June 09, 2014 @06:38AM
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> it's two concepts: "collection", and "pointer to collection". I guess coming from C that didn't bother me too much
Fair point. I guess what bugs me is that you can use collections merrily without references until you want to pass more than one collection to a function - or create a collection that isn't flattened - at which point you have no choice.
Fair point. I guess what bugs me is that you can use collections merrily without references until you want to pass more than one collection to a function - or create a collection that isn't flattened - at which point you have no choice.