Re: why can't I collapse reference variables?

[email protected] (James E Keenan) Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:07:22 -0500
Newsgroups perl.scripts
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Nov 27, 2009, at 10:48 PM, Mark_Galeck wrote:

> $ref = \@foobar;
> print @$ref;
>
> then why can't I do this:
>
> print @\@foobar;

use strict;
use warnings;

> ------------------------------------
> I have this kind of problem often,

If you're having this problem often, it's probably because you're not  
using strictures and warnings often.