References to Array
my @names = ('foo', 'bar', 'baz') my $ref_to_names = \@names; @names @$ref_to_names # de-reference the array $name[0] $$ref_to_names[0] $ref_to_names->[0] # same but looks better sacalar @names scalar @$ref_to_names $#names $#$ref_to_name # I never liked this