ikegami,

Actually, at a certain level of granularity, your car does indicate a road. At least more so than it would indicate a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich. And I think that is what Argel is getting at. He is simply suggesting to novice users to memorize the (LIST) idiom when initializing a hash or array and forget about understanding why for now. In his effort to do this, he writes a simplism but that seem not so harmful.

Argel,

On the other hand, this is sundialsvc4 asking this, and from what I've seen of his posts, he's more than ready enough to comprehend the full truth: that the parenthesis are just there for operator precedence so the comma expressions get evaluated before the assignment.

In fact, I also used to trip up now and again while initializing an array or hash and use {} or [] instead of (), but thanks to ikegami's presumably good-intentioned opaqueness, I actually paused and thought about why parentheses, and thus it will never be an issue again for me as I finally understand.

In reply to Re^23: Why? (each...) by jffry
in thread Why? (each...) by locked_user sundialsvc4

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