[tpm] Lightning Talk lineup

[Dave Doyle]

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Dammit.

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Richard Dice <rdice at pobox.com> wrote:

>
>>
>> But then Richard broke my head with:
>>
>> sub a {
>>     &b
>> }
>>
>
> Jon Orwant schooled me with this one back in '97.
>
>
>> My jaw literally hit the table.  I'd also not know the & invocation style
>> (without brackets) automatically passed @_ into the sub.  I'd thought that &
>> is soooo Perl 4 and beneath my notice.  Whoops.  Two characters.  Two bloody
>> characters to my 21.
>>
>
> Of course, '&' is necessary when defererencing a coderef, but the context
> is different I'll admit.
>
>
>> Got the job though. :)
>>
>
> Yeah, about that.  We should talk...
>
> Cheers,
>  - Richard
>
>


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