Re: optional third argument for has_many

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hmmm, I thought "syntactic sugar" was supposed to clarify programmatic
constructs... foo( x=>y=>z), just looks like a typo to me... :)

thanks for clearing it up for me though.



On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 08:17:56 +0200, David Jack Olrik <david@xxxxx.xx> wrote:
> 
> On Oct 2, 2004, at 0:07, Y00R0B0T wrote:
> > I've seen other code posted on this list looking like this
> > __PACKAGE__->has_many(col_id=>'PACKAGE::NAME'=>other_col);
> >
> > can  that call also just be:
> > __PACKAGE__->has_many(col_id=>'PACK::NAME', 'other_col'); ?
> 
> Yes it can. In perl5 '=>' is just syntactic sugar for ','
> So you could also write:
> 
> __PACKAGE__->has_many(col_id , 'PACK::NAME' , 'other_col');
> 
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