SPUG: Shouldn't this work?

[Jim Flanagan]

--On Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:14 PM -0800 "Martin, Asa" 
<asa.martin at attws.com> wrote:

     > Am I missing something, or shouldn't this syntax be valid to create
     > a reference to an anonymous array:

  Yes, this shouldn't work. :^)

  The qw operator creates an array, not an arrayref. The qw operator is
  magical in that you can use a delimiter that is part of an open/close
  pair, like {}, [], (), or a 'unary' delimiter, like $$, %%, ##, //, ||,
  whatever. They all mean the same thing.

  You could use the following:

  $aref = [qw(these are the elements of my arrarref)];

-- 
Jim Flanagan
jimfl at colltech.com

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