different type of getting an array reference

From: Octavian Rasnita (orasnita_at_fcc.ro)
Date: 12/27/04 

To: <beginners@perl.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:26:22 +0200

Hi all,

Can you please tell me what's the difference between these two types of
getting the reference to @a array?

my $ref = [ @a ];
and
my $ref = \@a;

If I do:
use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper $ref;

Both ways of accesing the @a array with a reference seems to be the same,
because Data::Dumper prints the same thing for $ref.

I need to access an array reference in a module, like...

my $self = [ @a ];
or...
my $self = \@a;

and I don't know if there will be any differences...

Thank you much.

Teddy

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