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• Commented on What's the difference between arrays and lists?
  So far, lists seem to me coincident with 'array literals'. That is the way I always referred to the (1,2,3) construct, and the name analogous constructs get in other programming languages. (With python, with its tuples, being the odd man...

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• Ether commented on What's the difference between arrays and lists?

  Arrays *can* be passed to subroutines, in the sense that the original array can be modified by the sub:

  perl -wle'sub foo { $_[0] = "ohhai" }; my @arr = (0,1,2); foo(@arr); print "@arr"'
  

• Mike Friedman commented on What's the difference between arrays and lists?

  You can modify the values in the array, but you're still not passing the actual array to the sub; @_ just has pointers to the list of SV *'s in the stack.