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in thread bareword and hash reference

Hi,

Yep, you are correct, and this means that 

$a{test}="ENV";
$a{test}{this}="strange";
 
die if ENV->{this} eq $ENV{this};

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this dies??

I really need some coffee now.
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IT Masters, Belgium

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Re: Re: Re: bareword and hash reference
by fruiture (Curate) on Aug 22, 2002 at 14:30 UTC

    Exactly. I conclude 'string -> {key}' equals '$string{key}' and is a symbolic reference, for 'string' is an at runtime determined name, and that's bad.

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      fruiture++

      Using Deparse shows that that's just what happens: 

      perl -MO=Deparse scratch.pl

$a{'test'} = 'very ';
$a{'test'}{'this'} = 'strange';
print $a{'test'};
print $very {'this'};

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