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| author | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2003-06-06 22:23:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2003-06-06 22:23:56 +0000 |
| commit | 695ff5bd5c58ec45a757946fd60f1420702ba4b6 (patch) | |
| tree | 05de4f362b2e32c79e3b319efbea1f7703ce9925 /pod/perldata.pod | |
| parent | 70dff5ba10e4ca7812cb86fd78f4732ba93c86d9 (diff) | |
| download | perl-695ff5bd5c58ec45a757946fd60f1420702ba4b6.tar.gz | |
Clarify that => doesn't quote compound identifiers.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19698
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perldata.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldata.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldata.pod b/pod/perldata.pod index f60d016fbf..0191a932a5 100644 --- a/pod/perldata.pod +++ b/pod/perldata.pod @@ -587,8 +587,9 @@ key/value pairs. That's why it's good to use references sometimes. It is often more readable to use the C<< => >> operator between key/value pairs. The C<< => >> operator is mostly just a more visually distinctive synonym for a comma, but it also arranges for its left-hand operand to be -interpreted as a string--if it's a bareword that would be a legal identifier. -This makes it nice for initializing hashes: +interpreted as a string -- if it's a bareword that would be a legal simple +identifier (C<< => >> doesn't quote compound identifiers, that contain +double colons). This makes it nice for initializing hashes: %map = ( red => 0x00f, |