Oops, wrong language

[afuna_archive]

Damn. PHP also uses @$. First thing I thought when I saw it was, "Oh neat, it's dereferencing an array reference." Then I realized a) the variable on the LHS wasn't an array, and b) I was in the wrong language.

(It's used for error control instead, which is also neat in its own way, I guess.)

Comments

[pauamma]

I have used $@ in code meant to Do Something Useful, but not to store an arrayref in it. You can pass a blessed reference to die inside an eval, which would set $@ to that reference, but blessed references are usually hashrefs (or pseudohash refs a la fields::phash), not arrayrefs.

[afuna]

"pass a blessed reference to die inside an eval"
Something about these words together makes me think of a video game :-)

And hmmm. *nods thoughtfully*