On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 08:08:48PM -0700, David Arnold wrote:
> At 09:52 PM 7/16/04 -0500, Charles K. Clarkson wrote:
> >David Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >: If I have:
> >:
> >: my $state={};
> >: $state->{WORD}='affection';
> >: $state->{GAMENO}=3;
> >: $state->{GUESSES}=3;
> >:
> >: Then, the following line puzzles me:
> >:
> >: my @[EMAIL PROTECTED](WORD GAMENO)};
> >:
> >: How does the order of evaluation go here in order to
> >: populate @ary?
> >
> > Why not just print @ary and find out for yourself?
>
> Charles et al,
>
> Certainly good advice, and I did print it out, so I do know what happens.
>
> %perl junk.pl
> affection3
> Compilation finished at Fri Jul 16 20:02:43
>
> It's just that I don't know why this happens.
What you have is a hash slice. It is the same as
my @ary = ($state->{WORD}, $state->{GAMENO});
Run perldoc perldata to read more about them.
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