=head1 TANGENT ... about the design of context in perl.
I get how you can do things like {%original, %changes}, but is there a reason why the => couldn't add some magic and assume scalar context on whatever it precedes? The only case I imagine it would break would be a hypothetical {%original, key=> @odd_list }, but I don't know why anyone would do that. On 29 January 2013 14:18, gvim <gvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 29/01/2013 14:09, pierre masci wrote: >> >> >> And (tell me if i'm wrong) it's also equivalent to this: >> >> my %result_hash = ( 'passed', $passed, 'valid', $r->valid, 'missing', >> $r->missing, 'invalid', $r->invalid, 'unknown', $r->unknown ); >> return \%result_hash; >> >> where the brackets clearly show that it's a list. >> > > The hash = list is not where my confusion originated. It came more from the > fact that the list is still a list of scalars so I couldn't understand why > adding another element to the list did not invoke a scalar context, that's > all. Anyway, Dave Cross cleared it up, thanks. > > gvim