Perl Christmas Quiz

[Paul LeoNerd Evans]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:37:23 +0000
"Joel Bernstein" <joel at fysh.org> wrote:

> > 4) How many different variable types are there in Perl? Be as sensibly voluminous in your answer as you are able.  
> 
> SCALAR ARRAY HASH CODE
> FileHandle DirHandle Regexp
> 
> But clearly we distinguish between numeric and string scalar values,
> so I'm wondering how exhaustive that list is...

Nono, this is an (incomplete) list of referant value types.

Variable types:

  my $scalar;
  my @array;
  my %hash;

Value types:

  undef
  non-reference; "foo" or 123 or 45.6
  reference:
    [your list above]
    GLOB

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Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

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