<div dir="ltr">...<br><br>Dammit.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Richard Dice <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rdice@pobox.com" target="_blank">rdice@pobox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_quote"><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr">But then Richard broke my head with:<br>
<br>sub a {<br> &b<br>}<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br>Jon Orwant schooled me with this one back in '97.<br> </div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">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.<br>
</div></blockquote></div><div><br>Of course, '&' is necessary when defererencing a coderef, but the context is different I'll admit.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Got the job though. :)<br><font color="#888888"></font></div></blockquote><div><br>Yeah, about that. We should talk...<br><br>Cheers,<br> - Richard<br><br></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><a href="mailto:dave.s.doyle@gmail.com" target="_blank">dave.s.doyle@gmail.com</a><br>
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