Hash Syntax Confusion

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Many online resources use another alternative syntax to define hashes.

Note: The term syntax, in programming, refers to ways to use punctuation and other symbols to create objects (amongst other things).

The fact that we can use square brackets ([]) and commas (,) to define arrays, ...