Dictionary from list?

[Jim Correia]

In article <3BD06B08.972910A5 at alcyone.com>,
 Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote:

> In particular, what this is really revealing is that a Perl associative
> array is really represented as a list, with each successive pair
> representing a key and a value.  (When writing list and associative
> array literals, you see the same thing.)

It reveals no such thing.  What it reveals is that there is a magic 
coercion that happens at assign time.