in reply to Hash Curious
choroba already pointed you to perldata#Slices ...
But:
> How does the hash get assigned by using the list symbol on it? ...
> ... @b{@f}=();
It's the same logic with $b{@f} = "value" where the LHS is a $scalar.
It's the curlies {...} which qualify b as hash.
Now with the @array sigil it becomes a list @b{@f}=();
Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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