Simon Cozens wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damian Conway) writes:
>
>>> %hash4 = ("Something", "mixing", pairs => and, "scalars");
>>
>>That's perfectly okay (except you forgot the quotes around the <and>
>>and you have an odd number of elements initializing the hash).
>
> Urgh, no. Either a pair is an atomic entity or it isn't. Which?
Odd meaning "not correct"... When initializing the hash, the pair
comes off as a single element. That leaves "scalars" as a key without
a value. So there's an even, but insufficient, number of elements
initializing the hash.
- Ken