Yes, I hear/see what you are saying, however, what if my array elements need to be interpolated:

my %hash = ( key1 => ["one thing","one $thing","$another"],
             key2 => ["and the list","keeps $going"]
           );
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When I go down this road, I am seeing errors. Should I be? or is this syntax correct? Apologies for not getting into this prior.

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