>>>>> "GY" == Gaal Yahas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
GY> I like hash slices:
GY> ($one, $two, $three) = @hash{ qw/aaa bbb ccc/ };
GY> Sadly, this doesn't work as an lvalue:
GY> @hash{ qw/aaa bbb ccc/ } = ($one, $two, $three); # WRONG
works fine for me.
perl -le '@h{ qw/aaa bbb/ }= (3, 5);print join ",", values %h'
5,3
where did you get the notion that hash slices won't work as an lvalue?
any list (of lvalues) can be an lvalue and a slice is just syntactic
sugar for the same list expanded out.
uri
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