Re^2: When is => ne , (warning rather arcane and possibly totally useless)


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Re^2: When is => ne , (warning rather arcane and possibly totally useless)

by bunnyman (Hermit)

on Jul 22, 2004 at 15:13 UTC ( #376611=note: print w/replies, xml )

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There is no "hash" involved here. It's merely a list.

perl -MO=Deparse -e "'moo', 'oom', 'zoop'"
'???', '???', '???';
-e syntax OK
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Re^3: When is => ne , (warning rather arcane and possibly totally useless)
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 22, 2004 at 15:37 UTC

I've been reading to much Perl 6 stuff where Pairs are distinct entities. Your right. It's just a 2 element list in a void context which is being optimised away. Hence the '???'.

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