#!perl
# examples shamelessly snatched from perldoc -f map
# translates a list of numbers to the corresponding characters.
@chars = map(chr, @nums);
%hash = map { getkey($_) => $_ } @array;
{
%hash = ();
foreach $_ (@array) {
$hash{getkey($_)} = $_;
}
}
#%hash = map { "\L$_", 1 } @array; # perl guesses EXPR. wrong
%hash = map { +"\L$_", 1 } @array; # perl guesses BLOCK. right
%hash = map { ("\L$_", 1) } @array; # this also works
%hash = map { lc($_), 1 } @array; # as does this.
%hash = map +( lc($_), 1 ), @array; # this is EXPR and works!
%hash = map ( lc($_), 1 ), @array; # evaluates to (1, @array)
@hashes = map +{ lc($_), 1 }, @array # EXPR, so needs , at end