[sf-perl] Unusual Perl "feature"

[Quinn Weaver]

On Feb 15, 2013, at 4:14 PM, Mark Kvale wrote:

> This is documented behavior; see
> 
> http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Symbolic-Unary-Operators
> 
> My guess on use? As the man says, '-bareword is equivalent to the string "-bareword"', allowing for fat comma keys without needing quotes, e.g.
> 
> (-bareword => 1, -title => 2)

But you don't need to quote keys anyway. This feature must exist for some other reason.

Perl is like hobbits, to paraphrase Gabdalf: you can know it for years, and yet still it can surprise you. :)

Regards,

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