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I'm sorry. I'm actually a little dyslexic and if a wrong word slips by the spell check I can get myself in trouble. s/deference/dereference/. Consider: my $x = [1,2,3]; print "@$x\…

I don't understand why this is getting down voted.

I'm familiar with C and understand why pointers are there. I understand what you are saying and you make a fair point. I'll take back my statement Perl has pointers. Claiming Perl …

But you deference the addresses just C. I'd say it's more a like a pointer than not. And this is where I have I issue. You don't deference addresses in Ruby or Python. When you are…

Please don't make assumptions about my Perl knowledge as I don't make any assumptions about your technical knowledge. I'm actually a Perl Programmer full time. Yes, Perl does have …

I'm writing to beginner programmers. Please, please don't use Perl. Use Ruby and/or Python. Other competing scripting might be good (like lua) but I haven't used them. I do know ho…

Thanks for the code sample and I like your convention. However, I can't enforce it on other people (especially at work) so it doesn't help me most of the time.

The problem is in practice @_ is abused like crazy. For example: 1) I've often seen people shift from @_ half way in the middle of a function. If you really want to be certain abou…