Oh, and would anyone happen to know...

[ibneko]

...what the heck the \ before the variables mean in perl...?

LJ::do_request(\%req, \%res, $flags);

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ah, nevermind, I found it on google.. had to search for "slash before" and perl though. Apparently it's Dereferencing. WTF??? =.= Why the holy flying fuck would you even want to do that? Now, I suppose the memory location would be useful.. but WHY is livejournal calling that when you do post? Why is it sending do_request() the memory location of those hashes (any perl variable that starts with the % is a hash, perl variables that start with @ are arrays, and $ are scalars) instead of the actual value.

I don't comprehend the madness. Fuckit, that's irritating me. Now I need to spend time reading the de_request function. Buggers.

...yeah, I know there was more cursing there than usual, but it irritates me that that wasn't covered in "Learning Perl" ¬.¬ stupid book and stupid llamas.

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[andr00.livejournal.com]

I read the blue O'Reilly "Perl" book ('the camel book') from cover to cover, and made up little exercises and things for myself so I'd remember what was in it. Read that one! Read the whole thing!

[ibneko.livejournal.com]

Oh, the camel book, okey. ::has the llama book at the moment... the shortened camel?::