From 35efdb202dd84807e51571cba301a15a16a7ed17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Landgren <david@landgren.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:03:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] perlref clarification (was: Re: Is this a bug or a feature?)
 Message-ID: <4517D3A5.4010200@landgren.net>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@28889
---
 pod/perlref.pod | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pod/perlref.pod b/pod/perlref.pod
index afc1671..65abf22 100644
--- a/pod/perlref.pod
+++ b/pod/perlref.pod
@@ -455,6 +455,12 @@ chicanery is also useful for arbitrary expressions:
 
     print "That yields @{[$n + 5]} widgets\n";
 
+Similarly, an expression that returns a reference to a scalar can be
+dereferenced via C<${...}>. Thus, the above expression may be written
+as:
+
+    print "That yields ${\($n + 5)} widgets\n";
+
 =head2 Symbolic references
 X<reference, symbolic> X<reference, soft>
 X<symbolic reference> X<soft reference>
-- 
2.7.4