Re: Question about ":"

... and the “()” is simply Perl’s required syntax for specifying more-than-one variable name in a my declaration. (Don’t ask me why.)

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Re^2: Question about ":" by Anonymous Monk on Jan 04, 2011 at 02:58 UTC
Because the manual says so :) and because you can write `(my $stuff: bar, undef, $glo : bal, my $ra : men ) = @_; my ( $d, $a, $n, $d, $i, $e, $s ) : dandies = @_;` [download] it would be tedious to have to use `(my($stuff):bar...`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Question about ":" by DStaal (Chaplain) on Jan 04, 2011 at 15:48 UTC
Because you are specifying a list of variables, and `()` denotes a list.	[reply] [d/l]