I wish there was ... dream dream .. hash, key, value functions ... key value pair references... dream dream...

my $hash = { key => "value" } ;
foreach( keys %{ $myHash } } {
   doSomething( \key $myHash->{$_} ) ; # or maybe without \
}
sub doSomething {
    print "key = " . key $_[0] . "\n" ;
    print( ( value $_[0] ) . "\n" ) ;
    print( ( hash $_[0] )->{key $_[0]} . "\n" ) ;
}
__END__
key = key
value
value
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or:

my $hash = { key1 => key $hash->{key1} } ;
print key $hash->{ key1 } ;
__END__
key1
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or:

my $hash = { key1 => "" } ;
print key $hash->{ key1 } ;
__END__
Not a key value pair reference at line 2
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or:

my $hash = { key1 => { key2 => \key $hash->{key1} } } ;
print key $hash->{ key1 }->{ key2 } ;
__END__
key1
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or another one:

my $key = "key1" ;
my $hash = { \$key => ...} ;
print $key . "\n" ;
print ( key $key ) . "\n" ;
__END__
KEY0x83412523
key1
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dream starts to repeat itself:

my $key = "key1" ;
my $hash = { \$key => "value" } ;
print( ( hash $key )->{ key1 } . "\n" ) ;
print( value $key ) ;
__END__
value
value
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And then I woke up...

Weird dream, I should go to a monk dream teller...

PS Please don't look at this code syntactically or start to look for typos. This is just free drawn and of course doesn't compile. I just like to see if anyone else ever felt something like this could be useful.

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