--- Mark Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm wondering if there is a difference between: > > $foo{'bar'} > and > $foo{bar} > > Is there any important difference? I prefer to use > single quotes (my editor handles color coding better > that way), but in examples I see from the list, etc. > folks don't seem to use them. Is there a reason why I > should ditch them?
Mark, If you like to quote them, there's no problem with that. If you use whitespace in your keys, you'll want to quote them. I don't quote them for the same reason that I usually skip optional parentheses: I like cutting down on all of the punctuation. Cheers, Curtis "Ovid with excess punctuation" Poe ===== "Ovid" on http://www.perlmonks.org/ Someone asked me how to count to 10 in Perl: push@A,$_ for reverse q.e...q.n.;for(@A){$_=unpack(q|c|,$_);@a=split//; shift@a;shift@a if $a[$[]eq$[;$_=join q||,@a};print $_,$/for reverse @A __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]