Uri Guttman wrote:
> so what that attribute does is force the hash to keep all pairs as
> single objects. but what about run time control of it? sometimes you
> might want a list of pairs to be handled like pairs and other times you
> want pairs to be scalars in a hash assignment. is there any way to
> manage that?
Sure. Just use the pairs as explicit keys and values:
# Pairs as key/values...
%hash = (a=>1, b=>2);
%hash = @pairs;
# Pairs as keys and then values...
%hash{a=>1} = b=>2;
for @pairs -> $k, $v { %hash{$k} = $v }
Damian
