Re: Strings vs Numbers (Re: Tying & Overloading)

[Peter Scott]

At 09:06 PM 4/24/2001 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>Edward Peschko writes:
>: Ok, so what does:
>:
>: my %hash = ( 1 => 3);
>: my $hash = { 1 => 4};
>:
>: print $hash{1};
>:
>: print?
>
>4.  You must say %hash{1} if you want the other.

I was teaching an intro class yesterday and as usual, there were several 
people who typed just that instead of what I'd taught, so there is 
obviously some intuitive merit to it.