Chas Owens wrote: > On 2/27/07, Neal Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > snip >> sorry about saying you had the wrong syntax earlier, i thought it >> was. i never knew you could do hashes with the comma operator. neat. >> i don't think its very clear syntactically but if it works it works :-) > snip > > In Perl 5 the only difference between the '=>' and ',' operators is > that the '=>' operator treats the word on the left like a string. The > '=>' is preferred when working with hashes because it provides a > visual cue that you are not dealing with a normal list.
The key word there is "word". The => operator only works with "word" characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and _). John -- Perl isn't a toolbox, but a small machine shop where you can special-order certain sorts of tools at low cost and in short order. -- Larry Wall -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
