Interesting how we seem to have never been on the same page on this and probably never will be. As an example:
But we do that so we can assign a list of key/value pairs to the hash.
Not true at all. Parens are only used in assigning lists of key/value pairs to hashes in a small percentage of situations.
Yet that is precisely where the OP made his mistake and thus the actual context I have been discussing this in (and the same situation for arrays)!! Which I have explained before. If we are not on the same page and apparently never will be, then there's no point in continuing.

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

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