Hi, I've posted a PDF of my presentation from last night: http://ertw.com/~sean/perl.pdf There was a bit of talk about Perl's handling of scalars, are they a string, integer or float? The article I was referring to is http://www.perladvent.org/2003/16th/ Sean -- Sean A. Walberg <sean at ertw.com> http://www.ertw.com