As far as I know, the #1 reason why people declare data structures explicitly is to avoid "uninitialized" messages while using warnings.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:peter@;psdt.com] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 5:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Declaring a Hash In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Johnstone) writes: >Here is how you declare hash. > >my %hash = (); The "= ()" is entirely redundant. Just "my %hash" does exactly the same thing. -- Peter Scott http://www.perldebugged.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
