in reply to RE: RE: Nesting... or something.
in thread Nesting... or something.

what you want is not possible, because you can't have a single hash key retrieve both a plain scalar and a hash reference. 
my %hash;

$hash{foo} = 'bar';

# the following replaces the value of $hash{foo} with a hash reference
$hash{foo}{bar} = 'baz';

# the following is equivalent
$hash{foo} = { bar => 'baz' };

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so, if someone did: builder('baz', [ 'foo', 'bar' ]); it would wipe out the effect of: builder('bar', [ 'foo' ]);

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RE: RE: RE: RE: Nesting... or something.
by jettero (Monsignor) on Jun 05, 2000 at 09:52 UTC
    What I wanted was possible. 
    sub build_args() {  # Based on fastolfe's answer
    my $data = shift;
    my $ptr = \%The_Big_Hash;
    my $me  = pop @_;
    foreach my $host (@_) {
        $ptr = $ptr->{$host}{deps};
    }
    $ptr->{$me}{args} = [ @{ $data } ];
    $ptr->{$me}{deps} = {};
}
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