in reply to Re: hash and arrays
in thread hash and arrays

Not quite true. I will not recommend the use of

as it relies on too much syntax magic.

The first set of brackets [ ] is used to indicate an anonymous array, whereas the second set of brackets ->[ ] de-references the array.

=> is used as a fat comma (not greater-than-or-equal-to), whereas <= is used as less-than-or-equal-to.

Hence,
[ $a => $b ]->[ $b <= $a ] is same as [ $a, $b ]->[ ($b <= $a) ] which either evaluates to [ $a, $b ]->[0] # returning $a or [ $a, $b ]->[1] # returning $b