Actually, at a certain level of granularity, your car does indicate a road.

Really? Which road does it indicate? I bet you want to answer "the one it's driving on", but it's neither driving nor on a road. So again, which road does it indicate?

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.

As he said, that is what he tried to suggest. "Use (LIST) to initialise a hash or array" is vastly different than "Parens indicate a list."

The former is explains one method of initialising a hash. The latter is incorrect and doesn't even help in the specific situation it's suppose to help.

In reply to Re^24: Why? (each...) by ikegami
in thread Why? (each...) by locked_user sundialsvc4

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