Re^2: Hash Syntax Question

in reply to Re: Hash Syntax Question
in thread Hash Syntax Question

also be aware of the following little gotcha:

perl -wMstrict -e "my %h;  $h{shift} = 'foo';  print %h" bar
shiftfoo
perl -wMstrict -e "my %h;  $h{shift()} = 'foo';  print %h" bar
barfoo
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