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the reason it's in OP's list is that that's just what Perl calls associative arrays. (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Perl_Programming/Hash_Variables http://en.wi
by logicallee 13y ago
the reason it's in OP's list is that that's just what Perl calls associative arrays. (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Perl_Programming/Hash_Variables http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Perl_Programming/Hash_Variables)
Hence it's literally the exact same thing as a dictionary, but is named a hash in Perl.
- judk 13y agoHah, in the second paragraph the author forgot, called it "associative array", and then remembered "hash" for the latter half of the sentence.