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in reply to Re^4: Is auto-dereferencing worth forcing upgrades to newer versions of Perl?
in thread Is auto-dereferencing worth forcing upgrades to newer versions of Perl?

It doesn't work on unblessed references, which is what the auto-deref feature does work on. (I thought you were referring to autobox.)

-xdg

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