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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:04:27 EDT
From: Jerrad Pierce <belg4mit>
>No. keys() expects something that starts with a %, not
>something that starts with a &.
That's lame though because I can do stuff like:
print join(' ', splice(@{[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0]}, 3, 3));
Unless perl is internally checking that splice is a CORE
function and thusly deemed magical, (seems unlikely, bad and un-perl like),
join will allow me to give it something that "starts with &"
And
sub foo { return (1,2,3,4); };
print join(' ', foo);
certainly seems to work.
So bascially my point is:
If a hash array function is handed a list, it should treat that list
as though it is the hash or array it would like it to be.
You know, that inherrent sense of Doing The Right Thing.
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