Hi peoples,

I am a total noob to Gossamer and Perl but it's part of my job to get to know it. I have plenty of experience in programming C and Java though. Call me a bit thick but learning this stuff has been an arse. I know Perl is inherently different to C which gives it some advantages.

This is in the help file for GT::SQL::Table ...

my $sth = $obj->select('Col2', 'Col3', { Col => "Val" }); is equivalant to ``SELECT Col2,Col3 FROM Table WHERE Col => 'Val'''.

I guess I am asking more general questions about Perl's philosopy but working out that line of code drove me a bit insane. It took me a few hours to realise the Col2 Col3 Col and Val are all just strings. Am I stupid? The quotation marks and lack of them confused the hell out of me!