Re^3: Use of the => operator

That comes from the high precedence of '+' over '=>'.

If stringification came first there would be no error; you'd wind up with the string '3+5' as a key, which is perfectly all right. Fat comma stringifies like qw, breaking on whitespace.

$ perl -e'%foo = ("3+5", "something");print keys(%foo),$/'
3+5
$
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Re^4: Use of the => operator by traveler (Parson) on Aug 09, 2004 at 22:02 UTC
Doh! I talked myself out of believing that, somehow. Now, of course, the question is which way is better... I guess that could be a Meditation some day.	[reply]