It's the same and documented so, after the first arrow the others are redundant

$VAR1->{"movie_results"}->[0]

exactly the same as

$VAR1->{"movie_results"}[0]

will update with links to perldocs ...

UPDATE

see perlreftut#Arrow-Rule

"In between two subscripts, the arrow is optional."

Quite right you are.

But I feel that making the arrow optional between two subscripts is confusing if Perl still makes a distinction between a reference and the data structure it refers to. I guess the rule is simple: PDS (Perl Data Structure=hash,array) can not contain arrays but refs or scalars. So drop the arrow notation. Hmmmm that might be confusing for a new-comer as it may suggest that arrays (not arrayref) is allowed inside a PDS.

That's a general Perl comment, not about what you wrote.

Maybe the intention is to allow $a[1][2][3] instead of the clumsy $a[1]->[2]->[3].

Greetings,
-jo

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I think of an @array as just syntactic sugar for an $a_ref = \@array.

They are not two different data types, just two sides of the same coin.

Without @sigil and %sigil many context mechanics wouldn't work.

Edit

Concerning repeated arrows ...

Perl is very special among other scripting languages in requiring explicit dereferencing. (this might be a C thing, I'm not sure)

How would you explain to someone coming from JS, Python or Ruby that he not only needs one -> but a bunch full for every level?

Cheers Rolf
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