Assigning anonymous hash to a list

[Joseph Werner]

It is because you are not assigning a list value to a list.  You are
assigning a scalar value that is the result of a ',' expression  to
the first element in the list.

Hope this helps.

Christian

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:54 PM, gvim <gvimrc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can anyone explain why this works:
>
> my $ref = {a => 1,  b => 2, c => 3};
> say $ref->{b};     #  Result: 2
>
> ... but this doesn't :
>
> my ($str, $ref) = 'text', {a => 1, b => 2, c => 3};
> say $ref->{b};   # Result: Use of uninitialized value
>
> Seems a little inconsistent.
>
> gvim



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