Re^3: hash deref confusion: Intermediate Perl

[Anonymous Monk]

I wouldn't really say it's a quirk. You're assigning a list of values to a list of hash slots, so the @ sigil is quite appropriate.

Sure, from that perspective it makes sense, but IIRC TheLarry himself called this a mistake, its why perl6 always calls a %hash a  %hash{$key} not  $hash{$key}

[tobyink]

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.

[Anonymous Monk]

.... 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;