in reply to glob objects - why?

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That's how passing hash references was emulated before real hash references were introduced.

map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

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Re^2: glob objects - why?
by NERDVANA (Priest) on Feb 24, 2023 at 07:00 UTC
    I have a hard time believing that "bless" pre-dates hashrefs. Do you have a source for that?
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      I probably misremembered the details of this stackoverflow answer.
      map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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        just wow...I thought I went pretty far back with perl, coming as I did as a Usenet traveler from fortran and C. What version of perl lacked a blessed reference?

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