Re: The strangest use of unlink I know of

A hash won't resolve to HASH(0x814dc30) in list context; that's the stringification of a reference to a hash. Hashes flatten and return their keys and values in list context.

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Re^2: The strangest use of unlink I know of by vrk (Chaplain) on Feb 28, 2008 at 17:19 UTC
The cute thing here is that the hash is initialized with a list of one item, a reference to an empty hash. So: `$ perl -e '%foo = {}; print %foo, "\n";' HASH(0x814dc30)` [download] and (note the trailing comma, indicating an undefined value): `$ perl -e '%foo = {}; print join(",", %foo), "\n";' HASH(0x814dc30),` [download] -- print "Just Another Perl Adept\n";	[reply] [d/l] [select]