>If the prefix-less form of filehandles was absent from Perl 6, I would be
>far less enthusiastic about my RFC. I agree; they're a kind of scalar.
>(Just occurred to me that one could view the % prefix of hashes as denoting
>a key-value pair by virtue of looking like two o's separated by a
>divider. Never seen this interpretation before, though.)
< Camel:
Since the keys to a hash are not automatically implied by their
position, you must supply the key as well as the value when
populating a hash. You can still assign a list to it like an
ordinary array, but each I<pair> of items in the list will be
interpreted as a key and a value. Since we're dealing with
pairs of items, hashes use the funny character C<%> to mark
hash names. (If you look carefully at the C<%> character, you
can see the key and the value with a slash between them. It
may help to squint.)
--tom
