Re^3: Solicitation For Ideas: Tutorial On Precedence

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I'm not dismissing the need for such a tutorial, but I suspect new users would be better served by a tutorial on how Perl code is chunked with a section on operator precedence. That way, you can include things like

Creating a list of hashrefs using map{}
Why doesn't print (3+5)/3; DWIM?
Why do some people do things like my $x = $hash_of_stuff{+shift}?

The real topic is a larger one than the one you're looking at.

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Re^4: Solicitation For Ideas: Tutorial On Precedence by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Feb 15, 2005 at 14:55 UTC
dragonchild, The real topic is a larger one than the one you're looking at. Fair enough. Hopefully this thread gets enough input for me to write such a tutorial or motivates someone else to. Cheers - L~R	[reply]

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