in reply to Re^2: Is "states" a reserved hash name??
in thread Is "states" a reserved hash name??

Not only that, but you can test your program for compilability at the command line, without actually running it, using perl -c.

*Yes, technically, it's not quite this simple. But this oversimplification is useful in many cases, especially when just starting out.

A word spoken in Mind will reach its own level, in the objective world, by its own weight

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