in reply to Re: Tutorial RFC: Guide to Perl references, Part 1
in thread Tutorial RFC: Guide to Perl references, Part 1

> curly braces have two different purposes. One is to dereference arrays and hashes. For example

curly braces have more purposes

This my %myhash = %{ $href } ; is just a form of grouping like in the first example to clarify the precedence.

Which doesn't make much sense here since my %myhash = %$href ; has the exact same effect.

And it's not the curly which does the dereference, but the %sigil.

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