Har har. First, you misunderstand my sentence. Second, it's done more often than you might think. I have a friend at RiskGrades who asked for some help setting up a hash in this way. She gets a list of keys, and needs to build up a hash (of hashes)+ based on those keys.

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Jeff[japhy]Pinyan: Perl, regex, and perl hacker, who'd like a job (NYC-area)
s++=END;++y(;-P)}y js++=;shajsj<++y(p-q)}?print:??;