Yo yo yo yo yo!

I have a config module with all sorts of nice variables and hashes and arrays. Now, we've created a way to override stuff in the default config module by eval'ing a file that can contain some of the same variables in the config module. This file is evaled at the top of the module and everything below looks like this: 
 
$foo ||= 'something default and generic"; 

$bar ||= 'something else common place and a good guess';

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This works fine and dandy until I hit a hash or an array, and then I get a polite error, such as: 

 
Can't modify array dereference in logical or assignment (||=)

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Which just makes me all frowny. Is there an easy way to have the same sort of functionality that I have with ||= and variables for hashes and arrays? I understand that ||= may work differently within a list context, but I don't know what to use in its place.

thanks for the wisdom,

-justin simoni
!skazat!

In reply to = for lists and hashes? by skazat

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