Well, I can’t answer your question, sorry :-(.

But I can confirm that, whatever was going on in version 5.8.8 (which I don’t have), was fixed by version 5.10.1:

 0:39 >perl -e " my $a = [ { test => { val => 1 } }, { test => { val =
+> 2 } } ]; print $a->{test}->{val}, qq[\n] "
Not a HASH reference at -e line 1.

 0:39 >

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Hope that is of some help,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum

In reply to Re: Wrong dereference => Out of memory by Athanasius
in thread Wrong dereference => Out of memory by schetchik

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