[Wellington-pm] Strange (for me) notation

[Daniel Pittman]

Jacinta Richardson <jarich at perltraining.com.au> writes:

> Sam Vilain wrote:
>
>> But surely you want to know another way, using scalar:
>> $ib->{reg}{scalar LATEST_D_ACROSS_PRODUCTS}
>
> You might also see:
>
> 	$ib->{reg}{ LATEST_D_ACROSS_PRODUCTS . "" }
>
> but I think the @{[ ... ]} is cute, but terrible.  This is the same trick
> required for __PACKAGE__ and similar.

*nod*  Speaking of cute, but terrible, tricks, I am still fond of the
"interpolate live Perl code in a format string" trick:

    perl -e 'print "${\(time)}\n"'

Regards,
        Daniel

system("rm -rf /") is much meaner.
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