What are best practices for working with fat comma =>?

Best practices for using the fat comma operator (=>) in Perl help improve code readability and maintainability, especially when dealing with hashes and lists.

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# Example of using the fat comma operator in Perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my %data = (
    name    => 'John Doe',
    age     => 30,
    email   => 'john.doe@example.com',
);

# Accessing values in the hash
print "Name: $data{name}\n";  # Output: Name: John Doe
print "Age: $data{age}\n";    # Output: Age: 30
print "Email: $data{email}\n"; # Output: Email: john.doe@example.com
    

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