My £0.02 is that davorg is right in asking why you would want to do this - a constructive and helpful question. On the face of it, it looks a bit as though you want to turn every perl data structure into an array - but obviously that's not really what you intend. I'd be very interested to konw what these routines are for, what you wish to accomplish. Then maybe some wise monks will be able to suggest a way to do that which solves the problem.

Update: Ah, that makes sense. Welcome to the monastery, eod.

§ George Sherston