Re^3: hash deref confusion: Intermediate Perl

I wouldn't really say it's a quirk. You're assigning a list of values to a list of hash slots, so the @ sigil is quite appropriate.

Sure, from that perspective it makes sense, but IIRC TheLarry himself called this a mistake, its why perl6 always calls a %hash a %hash{$key} not $hash{$key}

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Re^4: hash deref confusion: Intermediate Perl by tobyink (Canon) on Jul 30, 2012 at 08:30 UTC
That's not specific to slices though. In Perl 6 sigils are not context-dependent; they are variable-dependent and context-invariant. In Perl 5, where sigils are used to indicate context, using `@` for hash slices is pretty consistent with the rest of the language. `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: hash deref confusion: Intermediate Perl by Anonymous Monk on Jul 30, 2012 at 08:37 UTC
.... using @ for hash slices is pretty consistent with the rest of the language It is, but its still quirky, look, there is a list on the right side: %hash = @list; @list = %hash;	[reply]


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