Same rebuttal.

Even with your made up number of 89%, that means one bug every 10 parens when declaring and initializing a hash or array. That's a huge error rate! Much too great to use in teaching.

Was not claiming it was accurate.

Yet your whole argument depends on it.

So if someone is not sure which one to use they could think "[]=array, {}=hash, and ()=list, and I'm assigning it a list of key/value pairs, so I guess I should use parens".

(I'm going to assume you meant "array ref" and "hash ref". Clearly one shouldn't use @a = [1,2,3]; to create an array with three elements.)

This is a false trichotomy. [] (array ref) vs {} (hash ref) vs neither (array or hash) is far more accurate. This is what I told the OP.

In reply to Re^34: Why? (each...) by ikegami
in thread Why? (each...) by locked_user sundialsvc4

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