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Re:A little thing to love about Perl 6 and COBOL by viraptor on Thursday February 05, 2015 @02:07AM (#9002103)
Isn't that a hash? Shouldn't python version be: dog['head']['ears'][0]['hairs'][123] ?
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Re:A little thing to love about Perl 6 and COBOL by maratc on Thursday February 05, 2015 @03:28AM (#9002255)
In both Perl and Python, "object" is a glorified hash, and its attributes are entries in that hash. Python just allows for a deeper level of syntactic sugar.
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Re:A little thing to love about Perl 6 and COBOL by pwr22 on Thursday February 05, 2015 @07:49AM (#9002927)
In Perl a hash is any scalar value blessed into a class

In modern Perl the attibutes would be accessed through accessors so the original example needs tr/{}/()/

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