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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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  • Color me stupid, but what's wrong with it? Or, put another way, what structure are you trying to express?

    • What's wrong with what? If you mean the even-sized list, that should actually be an ordered list of pairs. That's something which Perl 6 can express, but not Perl 5 (at least, not cleanly). As a result, I need an even-sized list in the correct format (which sucks), or a list of hashes, each of which only has one key/value pair. I expect I'll go with the latter.

      Or were you referring to something else?

      • I'm unable to envision the structure you're trying to express. I don't understand how the XML and the two YAML snippets relate to each other.

        Some of the assertions confuse me because they seem to be wrong. Like "YAML doesn't really support the idea of an array of pairs or ordered hashes". They address this specifically in the spec [yaml.org]. Wouldn't an array of pairs be:

            - key:   value
            - this:  that
            - up:    down

        And why does it need to be ordered

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