On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:13:17AM +0000, Dave Cross wrote: > > It's commonly used to pass named arguments: > > > > set_lang( -name=>'Perl', -paradigm=>'hybrid', -motto=>'TMTOWTDI' ); > > I thought that was using "=> quotes its left-hand operand" magic > quoting, not "unary - quotes its operand" magic quoting :)
IIRC, way back in the early days of perl5 => was just a different way to write , it did not have auto-quoting properties. The leading - to the word did though. Although I think that was added after the original perl5 release. It may have been push for by Nick in the early days of Tk development. Graham.
