> The big arrow is used in place of a ',' (comma). Now,
> I just read in the latest Learning Perl that this is
> global (i.e..: you can replace ANY comma with it, but
> I may have misunderstood, have to re-read that again),
>>>
Almost, the following is valid:
my $couple = join " & " => qw(Husband Wife);
however, you'll note swapping the big arrow for a comma
doesn't quite work for a hash:
my %hash = ( big city, 'New York',
Little City, 'Mayberru'
);
>>The special property of the => is to automatically quote
>>the LHS if it is only a single word word - provided it
>>doesn't contain certain characters (lke +-/*$%& etc) that
>>make it look like an EXPR (expression). Then it *may*
>>be evaluted rather than simply being quoted.
>>>>>
Please explain what you meant in the above paragraph :)
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