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in reply to Re: Re: Re: Hash slices ?
in thread Hash slices ?

perl -w -e '%x=(a=>7,b=>8,c=>9);@s=(qq(a),qq(b));$y=@x{@s};print $y;'
returns 8 -- so it is pretty clearly the case that a hash slice is properly a list.