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Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 19:10:41 +0300
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From: "Daniel Kluev" <dan.kluev@gmail.com>
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Octavian Rasnita <orasnita@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>> And you are telling that in Perl should be used an even more =
complicated and
>> ugly syntax just for beeing the same as in Python just for showing =
that I am
>> wrong, but I was comparing just the shortness and cleraness of the =
code.
>>
>> So, again, in Perl is just:
>>
>> %d =3D @l;
>=20
> Once again. Suppose we have array of key-value pairs (two-dimensional
> array),

This is a forced example to fit the way Python can do it with a clean =
syntax, but I don't think there are cases in which somebody wants to =
create hashes/dictionaries where the key is not a plain string but an =
array.

This is not a rare case, but a case that probably nobody needs, ever.

Octavian