perlquestion Mr_Micawber <p>I've been experimenting with using interpolated strings to define hashes. I'm curious why the variation defining <c>%kv</c> below works. There's something about the colon, which I think is a pair constructor (?) and the square brackets that I'm not getting. </p> <code> #!/usr/bin/perl6 use v6; my ($hkey, $hval ) = <somekey someval>; # simple form: # my %kv = $hkey, $hval; # works my %kv = :[$hkey],$hval; # works # my %kv = :$hkey,$hval; # error # my %kv = :{$hkey},$hval; # _block83 someval say %kv; # somekey someval </code>