[Nh-pm] quoting list keys & values

[Ben Boulanger]

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Erik Price wrote:
> Word to that.  (And I'll definitely take you up on the advice of using 
> strict and -w.)  But my confusion arose from the fact that even when 
> using strict, hash keys are exempt from the requirement of being quoted 
> strings.

Right you are... I didn't realize you didn't get a warning with the 
hashkey unquoted.  I would -imagine- it's still good form to quote, but.. 
As this is a different question - I don't know for sure...  I will say 
that if you don't use a number as the assigned value, it does bark a bit:

[bboulanger at .. bboulanger]$ perl -we 'use strict; my %blah = (a => yep); 
print "$blah{a}\n";'
Bareword "yep" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at -e line 1.
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.



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