From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2007-09-17T02:45:49+09:00
Subject: Re: bug with assignment?

On 9/16/07, Mukund <maruthim@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The snippet illustrates my question.
>
> a={}
> b={}
> a["alpha"]=b["alpha"]=[]

You are assigning a new Array to the key "alpha" in the hash b. The
return value from hash assignment is the object stored in the hash --
i.e. the new Array you created. This object is then assigned to the
key "alpha" in the hash a.

Blessings,
TwP