Xah Lee wrote: > © # in perl, keyed-list is done like this: Just FYI: those thingies are called hashes. The legacy name would be associative array.
> © %a = ('john',3, 'mary', 4, 'jane', 5, 'vicky',7); > © use Data::Dumper qw(Dumper); > © print Dumper \%a; Wow, my compliments. The very first time that using Data::Dumper actually may do something useful (formats the data more nicely). Still, why you are passing a reference is beyond me. > © # the syntax of keyed list in Perl is too complex > © # to be covered in a short message. Excuse me? If (using the same examples as for your Python section) print "Mary is $a{mary}"; delete $a{vicky}; print %a; print keys(%a); exists $a{mary}; is too complex for your to cover, then I strongly suggest you stop posting your "explanations". > © # see "perldoc perldata" for an unix-styled course. Excuse me? Do you mind explaining where exactly perldata is "Unix-styled"? jue -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list