Re: Syntax Error using STRICT and Declaring Variable

..because that's not how you declare variables? Seriously, it's hard to know what you wanted to do, but my @chicago{ qw(tiger bob munch toy) } = () is pretty much totally broken from the very first "{".

Were you trying to create an array? A hash? An array within a hash? I honestly don't know.

($_='kkvvttuu bbooppuuiiffss qqffssmm iibbddllffss')
=~y~b-v~a-z~s; print

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Re^2: Syntax Error using STRICT and Declaring Variable by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 02, 2006 at 04:48 UTC
He's trying to create a hash, and initialize it using a hash slice at the same time.	[reply]
Re^2: Syntax Error using STRICT and Declaring Variable by blazar (Canon) on Feb 02, 2006 at 11:15 UTC
More simply... "...because you can't declare a hash slice. Only a hash* as a whole."* the kind of dwimmery which he was expecting, which is to condense a declaration and the assignment of a slice in a single statement does not exist - and indeed would better not exist, for as far as I can say, it's not consistent at all.	[reply]
Re^2: Syntax Error using STRICT and Declaring Variable by awohld (Hermit) on Feb 02, 2006 at 04:48 UTC
I got it straight out of the "Perl Cookbook".	[reply]
Re^3: Syntax Error using STRICT and Declaring Variable by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 02, 2006 at 04:50 UTC
I bet there was no `my`.	[reply] [d/l]