Fat Comma
Fat comma (also known as hash rocket in Ruby) refers to the “=>" operator present in some programming languages. It is primarily associated with PHP, Perl and Ruby, 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 idiomatic Perl. In CoffeeScript, the fat comma is used to declare a function that is bound to this.
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