Re: Anonymous Reference Question

On Sep 28, Dave Adams said:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
my $grades = {"tom"=> 50, "sally"=> 60, "harry" => 70};
print Dumper($grades) ;

And perl gives me this:

$VAR1 = {
         'harry' => 70,
         'sally' => 60,
         'tom' => 50
       };

QUESTION: Does this mean that $grades is an anonymous reference
because perl gives is $VAR1?

No, it's just what Data::Dumper outputs when you don't assign a name to the data structure you pass it. See the Data::Dumper docs.

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