[tpm] Lightning Talk lineup

[Richard Dice]

>
> 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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