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New OK, I think I get it.
Here goes:

Perl has scalars, arrays and hashes for data structures (scalars can be references). For passing a few things around, Perl uses lists. Lists are not goddamned arrays, goddamn your goddamned eyes, you goddamned sissy puspus programmer! Got it?

In all seriouosness, I think I understand much better now. Thank you very much for taking your (even more valuable now) time and producing a lucid explanation. This deserves to be written in some kind of global FAQ place, if it's not already there.
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This guy's ahead of his time! He's using quantum programming methods: in universes where invalid data is passed to this function, it does not return. Thus you are ensured that you will only have valid data after calling it. Optimally you'd destroy the universe on failure, but computers haven't quite advanced to that level yet.

-- [link|http://thedailywtf.com/archive/2004/10/26/2920.aspx|The] Daily WTF

New Yup, sounds like you've got it
As for a global FAQ, the perldata manpage attempts to explain this, along with the full syntax involved. The information is there - but the problem for the reader is extracting the information that you need from the mass of information that you might possibly need. (A problem which is complicated by the fact that different people need different pieces of information.)

Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
     One line description of data model for Perl - (Arkadiy) - (33)
         Yep, you got it right. - (admin) - (1)
             You're not helping - (Arkadiy)
         Perl: Everything is... - (ChrisR)
         Over simplifying - (broomberg) - (1)
             linquistic versus data personalities - (tablizer)
         To pick up from what Barry said. - (static) - (4)
             No, everything is whatever Barry needs it to be - (Arkadiy) - (3)
                 The logic - (ben_tilly) - (2)
                     Keys... - (Simon_Jester) - (1)
                         Tie is NOT a module (and it sucks) - (ben_tilly)
         Well, Lisp - everything is a list or an atom... - (Simon_Jester) - (18)
             Atonm, list, hash... - (Arkadiy) - (17)
                 References are essentially pointers - (broomberg) - (7)
                     I am not trying to build anything in particular just now - (Arkadiy) - (6)
                         some answers - (cforde) - (5)
                             OK, another arbitrary distinction to remember - (Arkadiy) - (4)
                                 It's easy enough to test... - (Simon_Jester) - (2)
                                     Yes it is easy to test. - (Arkadiy) - (1)
                                         Testing has some disadvantages.... - (Simon_Jester)
                                 It isn't arbitrary - (ben_tilly)
                 References: pointers in languages that don't have pointers -NT - (FuManChu)
                 okay...look at it this way.... - (Simon_Jester)
                 PERL DOES NOT STORE LISTS!!! - (ben_tilly) - (6)
                     OK, in that case, what is (a,b,c) ? - (Arkadiy) - (5)
                         In which context? - (ben_tilly) - (4)
                             In the context of grammar and syntax - (Arkadiy) - (3)
                                 Simple answer: there is no syntactic difference - (ben_tilly) - (2)
                                     OK, I think I get it. - (Arkadiy) - (1)
                                         Yup, sounds like you've got it - (ben_tilly)
         lets try another viewpoint - (daemon)
         Sorry for not responding in this thread earlier - (ben_tilly) - (2)
             No worries. - (Arkadiy) - (1)
                 :-) -NT - (ben_tilly)

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