Hi,

when a hash is defined with a reference , it's value is obtained by dereferencing using ->. Here keys of hash is referencing to a hash. so while dereferencing, why is it allowing $hash->{a}{1} as it should allow only $hash->{a}->{1} $hash={a=>{1=>2}};

print "ref($hash->{a})"; #says its an hash reference 
print "$hash->{a}->{1}" ;#returns 2 as expected
print "$hash->{a}{1}"; #also returns 2 ,my question is how without der
+eferencing the key of $hash->{a} its value is getting displayed?

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2019-03-07 Athanasius added paragraph and code tags

In reply to Query on References by Arunkumar_141

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