Re: Sending an anonymous hash to a sub

You didn't pass an anonymous hash, you passed a reference to an anonymous hash, because you used {} instead of ().

This works:

   describe(  (name=>'buffy',job=>'vampire slayer' )  );
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All code given here is UNTESTED unless otherwise stated.

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Re: Re: Sending an anonymous hash to a sub by revdiablo (Prior) on Sep 03, 2003 at 01:44 UTC
Superfluous nitpick: that this doesn't really pass an anonymous hash either. It passes a list (`=>` really is nothing more than a glorified comma, after all) which gets shoehorned into a hash by `my %person = @_;`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Re: Sending an anonymous hash to a sub by bobn (Chaplain) on Sep 03, 2003 at 04:09 UTC
Superfluous nitpick that this doesn't really pass an anonymous hash either. It passes a list Which is interpreted as a hash if that's what the receiver is looking for. Hashes and lists are often indistinguishable, as long as the number of entries is even. I'll concede that I'm not sure of all the stuations that this applies to - but it works in this case. --Bob Niederman, http://bob-n.com All code given here is UNTESTED unless otherwise stated.	[reply]