in reply to Use of the => operator

: Second, is there even a practical solution?

yes, quite a few:

%a = ( '09' => 'a' ); %a = ( '09', 'a' ); %a = qw( 09 a ); $key = '09'; $value = 'a'; %a = ( $key => $value );

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Re^2: Use of the => operator
by roju (Friar) on Aug 10, 2004 at 15:33 UTC
    I was more asking if there was a practical way to hack perl so that 09=> would be equivalent to '09'. That said, '09' was in fact the solution I chose to get my code working.