LPM: passing array refs

[Matt Cashner]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Rich Bowen wrote:

> The problem, of course, is that if you have a prototype of @$, how would
> perl know when the array was to stop and the scalar to start? So you end
> up with all your arguments in the array, and nothing in the scalary.
> Worse yet, imagine @$@, and try to figure out what goes in the scalar if
> I pass (1,2,3,4,5,6,7).

the way i'm reading Programming Perl (which might be wrong :) is that the
prototype @$ actually expects an array ref as the first argument. so if
you prototype sub foo (@$) { BLOCK } you invoke it by foo(\@array,$var); 
and sub foo (\@$) { BLOCK } would be invoked by foo(@array,$var); with the
magical transformation of @array to a ref. now, if i can get that to
actually work is another thing :)

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