On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Larry Wall wrote:
> You subscript hashes with {...} historically, or these days, «...»,
> when you want constant subscripts. So what you're looking for is
> something like:
>
> if / <?foo> ... <?baz> ... { $?foo{'baz'} ... $?baz } .../
> or
> if / <?foo> ... <?baz> ... { $?foo«baz» ... $?baz } .../
I'm probably a bit behind on current thinking, but did %hash{bareword}
lose the ability to assume the bareword is a constant string?
And why «»? Last I heard, that was the unicode version of qw(), which
returns an array. Using an array constructor as a hash subscriptor is
not a "least surprise" to me.
~ John Williams
