[ale] perl bogosity

Todor Fassl fassl.tod at gmail.com
Tue May 24 17:21:05 EDT 2016


Are you sure about that?

$ perl -e 'print ref({ "key" => "value" }) . "\n";'
HASH
$ perl -e 'print ref([ "key" => "value" ]) . "\n";'
ARRAY

Using the Data::Dumper module, it looks like [ 'key' => 'value' ] 
creates an anonymous reference to an array with 2 elements.

On 05/24/2016 03:10 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
 > [ 'key' => 'value' ] is an associative array like that.
 >

-- 
Todd


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