Look at the paragraph above that chart
While we usually think of quotes as literal values, in Perl they function as operators, providing various kinds of interpolating and pattern matching capabilities. Perl provides customary quote characters for these behaviors, but also provides a way for you to choose your quote character for any of them. In the following table, a "{}" represents any pair of delimiters you choose.
--MidLifeXis
In reply to Re: Quote and Quote-like Operators
by MidLifeXis
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