Re: dereferencing

On Oct 29, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Tom Phoenix wrote:
I don't think that what the original poster
wants is even possible, but I can't see any reason to need it, either.

It's probably not necessary per se, as you can always do anything using reference syntax, but it's awkward and requires lots of extra dereferencing by the interpreter.

If %hash has a few thousand entries,

routine (%hash);

sub routine {
my %myhash = @_;
....
}

is wasteful and timeconsuming, and I don't want to have to type lots of extra arrows just because I passed the hash to a subroutine. And now I don't have to. Yay.

--
Aaron Priven, aaron@xxxxxxxxxx, http://www.priven.com/aaron


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