I've got my hash slice, actually no I don't...

jerrygarciuh has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Ok, dumb joke. Here is the problem, in Ch 5 of the Llama it is said that this:

@name={"one","two","three"}=("David","Ramsey","Martin");

is a shorter way of writing This:

$name{"one"}="David";
$name{"two"}="Ramsey";
$name{"three"}="Martin";
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In my code, copied from the Llama, the second way works but the first (better?) way results in the error:
"Can't modify single ref constructor in scalar assignment."
Am I missing something obvious? I've triple checked my typing...Tried it with unquoted numbers as the values...
TIA
jg

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Re: I've got my hash slice, actually no I don't... by VSarkiss (Monsignor) on Sep 24, 2001 at 23:15 UTC
Just a small typo in your code. It should be: `@name{"one","two","three"}=("David","Ramsey","Martin");` More elegant (IMHO) is: `@name{qw(one two three)} = qw(David Ramsey Martin);` HTH	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: I've got my hash slice, actually no I don't... by suaveant (Parson) on Sep 24, 2001 at 23:13 UTC
Should be `@name{"one","two","three"}=("David","Ramsey","Martin");` [download] no = after @name... maybe it's a typo... I don't have the llama book... - Ant - Some of my best work - Fish Dinner	[reply] [d/l]