Fat comma
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title:
Fat comma
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The fat comma is a syntactic construction that appears in a position in a function call where a comma would usually appear. The original usage refers to the ")letters:(" construction in ALGOL 60. Newer usage refers to the "=>" operator present in some programming languages. It is primarily associated with PHP, Ruby and Perl programming languages, which use it to declare hashes. Using a fat comma to bind key-value pairs in a hash, instead of using a comma, is considered an example of good idiomat
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Syntactic construction in computer programming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_comma
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2023-12-31T17:49:51Z
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