in reply to Re^2: Dereferencing in blessed object
in thread Dereferencing in blessed object

Both are legal syntax, the overwhelming mainstream tends to $vars->{'test'} probably since PBP.

So many might have problems reading the other form.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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