In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mark Peters  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>Square brackets indicate the index into a sequence (like a list)
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I'm wary of this line, especially in isolation.  I hope it reduces,
rather than exacerbates, the original questioner's confusion, for me
to observe that [] *also* mark dereferencing into a dictionary (hash,
associative array, ...), which is distinct from list indexing.
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