Re^4: hash deref confusion: Intermediate Perl

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That's not specific to slices though. In Perl 6 sigils are not context-dependent; they are variable-dependent and context-invariant. In Perl 5, where sigils are used to indicate context, using @ for hash slices is pretty consistent with the rest of the language.

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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Re^5: hash deref confusion: Intermediate Perl by Anonymous Monk on Jul 30, 2012 at 08:37 UTC
.... using @ for hash slices is pretty consistent with the rest of the language It is, but its still quirky, look, there is a list on the right side: %hash = @list; @list = %hash;	[reply]

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