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Odd. I didn't even notice. I'm not sure I understand - I shuffled parens around but there's no difference. This is funny and sort of embarrassing.. what am I missing?

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^5: A different OO approach
by adrianh (Chancellor) on Dec 15, 2002 at 03:37 UTC

    A single hash is a special case with \(). From perlref.

    As a special case, "\(@foo)" returns a list of refer- ences to the contents of @foo, not a reference to @foo itself. Likewise for %foo, except that the key refer- ences are to copies (since the keys are just strings rather than full-fledged scalars).

    Annoying eh?

      Wow, ya learn something new every day. Yes, annoying indeed. Ugh.

      Makeshifts last the longest.