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[Paul LeoNerd Evans]

On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 19:54:46 +0100
gvim <gvimrc at gmail.com> wrote:

> my ($str, $ref) = 'text', {a => 1, b => 2, c => 3};

Precedence.

This parses as 

  (  my ( $str, $ref ) = 'text' ),   { a => 1, b => 2, c => 3 };

To make it work as you expect use parens on the RHS as well:

  my ( $str, $ref ) = ( 'text', { a => 1, b => 2, c => 3 } );

-- 
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

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