[Tutor] Are you allowed to shoot camels? [kinda OT]

Nicholas.Montpetit at deluxe.com Nicholas.Montpetit at deluxe.com
Thu Feb 3 21:30:53 CET 2005


> Nicholas.Montpetit at deluxe.com wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Btw, I'm skeptical that the code below does what you want it to do. 
:-)
> > 
> 
> that was kind of my point. In python I just type the obvious and it 
> works. In Perl I have to muck with references, slashes, arrows and the 
> like. Every time I have had to write a nested datastructure I have spent 

> my time debugging that structure.

Same here, Sean:  whenever I work with nested data structures, I end up 
doing some debugging.  However, I think that has more to do with my 
less-than-perfect understanding of references than with any Perl 
shortcomings.

-Nick
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