> couldn't be sure if it was possible.

Well, I think the point is that map isn't primarily meant to operate on hashes, it takes a list and returns a list.

LIST = map {BLOCK} LIST

But assigning a list to a hash can result in collisions

  DB<166> %hash = (Canberra => { 12 => 1}, Canberra => { 18 => 1} )
 => ("Canberra", { 18 => 1 })

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You could however design a sub join_deep , such that:

  DB<178> sub join_deep {
             my %hash;
             while ( my ($a,$b) = splice @_,0,2 ) {
                $hash{$a}= { %{$hash{$a}}, %$b }
             }
             return %hash;
          }

  DB<179> %h =join_deep (Canberra => { 12 => 1}, Canberra => { 18 => 1
+} )
 => ("Canberra", { 12 => 1, 18 => 1 })

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But frankly, I don't see the need for such abstraction.

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language) couldn't be sure if it was possible.

In reply to Re^3: Possible for Map to create Hash of Hash? by LanX
in thread Possible for Map to create Hash of Hash? by konnjuta

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