Q: What's the difference between a duck ?
A: One of its legs is both the same.

So ... I'm looking at 2 different ways of assigning a hash: 
my %h1 = (FOO => 1, BAR => 2);
my %h2 = %{{FOO => 1, BAR => 2}};

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and wondering what the difference is.

What coding opportunities does the latter provide, that the former can't provide ? ... or is this just a case of tmtowtdi ?

No need to provide a detailed discourse ... a referral to relevant documentation should suffice. (I don't actually understand why/how the the assignment to %h2 in the above code works.)

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to What's the difference between a hash ? by syphilis

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