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Example?
by gbacon 3y ago
Example?
- kstrauser 3y agoFor me, it was the argument passing syntax. I had to look up the magic sigil for doing hashref stuff every single time. One day I tried Python, learned that everything is passed by object reference, and set Perl aside and never looked back. There was so much less mental overhead that Perl never lured me back.
- ecef9-8c0f-4374 3y agoThere was an experimental auto-deref feature since Perl 5.14 And it's already gone again since 5.24.
- chromatic 3y agoThat's because it didn't work reliably. There were at least a couple of situations where Perl would have had to guess which operation you were trying to perform, so the feature was a source of potential bugs.
- ecef9-8c0f-4374 3y agoHi. I really liked your book Modern Perl. Yes unfortunately auto-deref had problems.