Re: Binding scalars to aggregates

On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 05:17:29PM +0200, Ingo Blechschmidt wrote:
: Hi,
: 
: Larry Wall wrote:
: > Except that you've rebound the container.  Hmm, maybe the original
: > binding is an error.
: 
: what about:
: 
:     sub foo (Array $arrayref) {...}
: 
:     my @array = <a b c d>;
:     foo @array;
: 
: The binding used by the parameter binding code does not use the
: standard := operator then, right? (As it'd have to $arrayref :=
: @array.)

Right, so I guess what really happens is ref autogeneration in that
case, and there's no difference between

    $x = @array;
    $x := @array;

Hey, who said anything about consistency?  :-)

Larry