From: Ron P. <rp...@bo...> - 2001-08-01 15:35:04
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At 10:54 AM 08/01/01 -0400, you wrote: >>>> <excerpt>(G5) @ and % do not suggest list and map to me ~Joe </excerpt><<<<<<<< Dear Joe @ and % come from Perl. @ is like an "a" that stands for "array", which holds a list. It looks like this in Perl: @my_array = ("a", "b", "c"); % is prefixed to the name of a map, which in Perl is called a hash, but used to be called an associative array, because it is a list of keys associated with values. It looks like this: %my_hash = (a => "1", b => "2", c => "3"); In the "%" symbol, the first tiny circle in the upper left can be thought of as associated with the other tiny circle, like a key and its value. Ron |