Yes, and because the interface sucks (imho,too), i don't want to have to remember it when reading a subroutine that actually has not much to do with it.

Hmm, i assume the '.' is wanted inside the string, because the leading '_' without concatenation operator implies the author thought "in hash keys it's like in double-quoted strings". I think he'll figure out himself what he might have meant ;)

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