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Newer page: version 2 Last edited on Monday, June 3, 2002 6:50:43 pm by perry
Older page: version 1 Last edited on Monday, June 3, 2002 6:50:43 pm by perry Revert
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 do) and leaves the remaining contents of the file 
 accessible via main::DATA. 
  
  
-See SelfLoader for more description of __DATA__, and an 
+See ! SelfLoader for more description of __DATA__, and an 
 example of its use. Note that you cannot read from the 
 DATA filehandle in a BEGIN 
 block: the BEGIN block is executed as soon as 
 it is seen (during compilation), at which point the 
@@ -495,9 +495,9 @@
 LISTs do automatic interpolation of sublists. That is, when a LIST is evaluated, each element of the list is evaluated in list context, and the resulting list value is interpolated into LIST just as if each individual element were a member of LIST . Thus arrays and hashes lose their identity in a LIST--the list 
  
  
  (@foo,@bar, 
-contains all the elements of @foo followed by all the elements of @bar, followed by all the elements returned by the subroutine named SomeSub called in list context, followed by the key/value pairs of %glarch. To make a list reference that does ''NOT'' interpolate, see perlref. 
+contains all the elements of @foo followed by all the elements of @bar, followed by all the elements returned by the subroutine named ! SomeSub called in list context, followed by the key/value pairs of %glarch. To make a list reference that does ''NOT'' interpolate, see perlref. 
  
  
 The null list is represented by (). Interpolating it in a 
 list has no effect. Thus ((),(),()) is equivalent to (). 
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