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in thread Stupid, yet simple, sort question

As noted in chatter, davorg was correct about Kage using symbolic referencees but was incorrect in thinking that the syntax $a->{key} does not work when $a isn't a "hard" reference (that is, when $a simply contains the name of some global hash variable).

Of course, use strict would prevent it from working, but that also prevents ${$a}{key} from working.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

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Re: (tye)Re: Stupid, yet simple, sort question
by davorg (Chancellor) on Oct 25, 2001 at 12:15 UTC

    Let the record show that tye is 100% correct and my assumption that $a->{key} implied hard references was 100% wrong.

    Let the record further show, however, that in my opinion allowing that syntax to work with symbolic references is a very bad idea :)

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