Re: [FWP] words words words

["Bernie Cosell" <bernie@fantasyfarm.com>]

On 19 May 2000, at 17:24, Philip Newton wrote:

> Bernie Cosell wrote:
> > On 19 May 2000, at 9:17, tayers@bridge.com wrote:
> > 
> > Dumb question [as I try to puzzle out how/if this works].  Is this a 
> > typo:
> > 
> > >     @t{@t} = (1) x @t;
> >       ^
> >        '%' here, perhaps??
> 
> No, '@'. It's a hash slice....

A brief note in my own defense, lest I get drummed off of FWP: I 
understand hash slices just fine.  What I don't understand/remember [and 
I suspect never will] is Perl's baroque (and irregular to my eye) syntax. 
Somehow an array-indicator with curly-braces *clanked* on my eye, and my 
[erring] intuition thought it should be a hash-indicator there...

Since I've betrayed my ignorance, I'll push my luck: is there any other 
context in Perl in which "@X" refers to the _hash_ named X rather than 
the array named X?

  /Bernie\
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