When printing a hash there are a few different notions of order that are relevant: “insertion order”, “sort order” and “random”. See the ENVIRONMENT section of the perlrun documentation for a discussion of ways you can control this behavior and for the reasons why the default is to use hash randomization. For at least a … Read more
Lists in Perl are not data structures, they are positions in the source code, determined by the context around them. Lists are basically the transient structures that Perl uses to move data around. You interact with them with all of Perl’s syntax, but you can not work with them as a data type. The data … Read more
The => operator in perl is basically the same as comma. The only difference is that if there’s an unquoted word on the left, it’s treated like a quoted word. So you could have written Martin => 28 which would be the same as ‘Martin’, 28. You can make a hash from any even-length list, … Read more