[Ma-linux] Perl 2D hash array

[Aaron M. Ucko]

Przemek Klosowski <przemek at jazz.ncnr.nist.gov> writes:

> Thanks to Nicholas and Aaron: it's the braces instead of parens.  I

You're welcome.

> What's your mental model of this syntax?

I find that it helps to think of references as stand-ins for variable
names; Perl even allows such "symbolic references" by default, in part
because that was the ONLY kind Perl 4 had.

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