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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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by djantzen (Priest) on Aug 22, 2002 at 14:50 UTC

    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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