The => operator in perl is basically the same as comma. The only difference is that if there’s an unquoted word on the left, it’s treated like a quoted word. So you could have written Martin => 28 which would be the same as ‘Martin’, 28. You can make a hash from any even-length list, … Read more
Lists in Perl are not data structures, they are positions in the source code, determined by the context around them. Lists are basically the transient structures that Perl uses to move data around. You interact with them with all of Perl’s syntax, but you can not work with them as a data type. The data … Read more
POD is the official way to do multi line comments in Perl, see Multi-line comments in perl code and Better ways to make multi-line comments in Perl for more detail. From faq.perl.org[perlfaq7] How can I comment out a large block of Perl code? The quick-and-dirty way to comment out more than one line of Perl … Read more