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Returning a hashref is a lot more efficient than a hash, because of all the flattening Perl does to the hash when passing one back from a subroutine. In a CGI program, a method like param() could be used a lot, so it's important to optimize it.

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Re: dereferencing syntax question
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Oct 24, 2003 at 14:40 UTC
    That's why I said I would change it to return a list in *list context*. Returning a hashref may be more efficient, but if you flatten it to a list right after returning it, you've lost most of your gain.

    Abigail

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