Coincidentally, I was thinking just last week about writing a Tie::StdHash module that overloaded addition for just such an effect...

I was curious, do you think that would be overkill for what amounts to just some syntatic sugar? Would it be better to just go with a simple function call, or is there perhaps some worth to be found in creating a whole module/class devoted to adding (and perhaps subtracting) hashes?

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