Re^4: Print something when key does not exist

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... I often use a fat comma to separate the "how-to-operate" and the "what-to-operate-on" arguments.

My favorite personal "off-label" usage of => is in an OO-code statement like
return bless $objectref => $class;
for what I imagine to be its self-documenting qualities: "bless object reference into class."

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Re^5: Print something when key does not exist by kcott (Archbishop) on Apr 06, 2014 at 23:09 UTC
I'd forgotten about that. Years ago I used to hand-roll OO classes almost on a daily basis and used the fat comma in `bless $objectref => $class` for exactly the same reason. There's a few others that have that similar "self-documenting qualities"; for instance, to send a signal to a process: `kill SIGNAL => $pid` [download] -- Ken	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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