> Is the difference between arrays and array references really necessary? This is certainly a annoyance compared to e.g. Ruby. It's getting easier to just alwa

> Is the difference between arrays and array references really necessary? This is certainly a annoyance compared to e.g. Ruby. It's getting easier to just always use references [0], but I haven't been using Perl much for a few years and am not sure if this is still considered experimental. [0] http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/perl-5.20.0/pod/perl5140delta.pod#Syntactical_Enhancements http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/perl-5.20.0/pod/perl5140delta.p...