I don't understand your question.

First off, you can say anything (freedom of speach), but jokes aside, what do you mean by internally?

There are no pointers in perl, are you talking about XS (c/c++)?

Like broquaint said, hashes and arrays are 2 distinct types, see `perldoc perldata'.

MJD says you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo! I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6x+5.8x. I take requests. ** The Third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.