The type of brackets ({} here) after the
variable name indicate the type of of the variable. The symbol
in front of the variable name just tells you the return type of the expression.
Excellent link, PrakashK, to Uri Guttman article about hash slices! Now I got it! I was told that one is not using perl if not using hashes, and I was trying. Now I was enlighted (again): hash slices are really cool! I have couple ways how to use them. Must-read article!
pmas
To make errors is human. But to make million errors per second, you need a computer.