Assigning anonymous hash to a list

[Adrian Lai]

my ($a, $b) = 'x', 'y';
say $b; # undef

my ($a, $b) = ('x', 'y');
say $b; # y

I assume Perl interprets as (my ($a, $b) = 'x'), 'y'.

Adrian.


On 30 July 2013 19:54, 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
>