> The only really tricky thing here for people who
>are unfamiliar with this syntax is:
>
> @db_lookup{ @database } = ();
>All this does is sets a whole heap of keys up in the %db_lookup hash in
>one pass. It looks like we've got an array called @db_lookup, but in
>fact that's just special syntax that Perl recognises because of the {}
>braces, so it knows it's a hash and that we're setting multiple keys at
>once.
I believe the term you are looking for is hash slice.
-Dave
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