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You're kind of stuck here.

Perl won't let you assign to the non-lvaluable thing you tried in your original example.
You'll have a lot of trouble doing something like
```
(@a, %h) = anything()
[download]
```
because @a will always get everything that is returned. (An artifact of the way perl handles nested list contexts.)
So that leaves you with something like
```
($href, $aref) = (@{&foo})
[download]
```
which is basically what you came up with on your own.

Once you've got the references, you can dereference them one at a time, as you are doing, but good luck trying to assign (copy) them all to "real" arrays/hashes at once because of that second point above. Anyone who knows any better than I do care to comment?
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In reply to Re: Assign a reference to a non reference by antifun
in thread Assign a reference to a non reference by mystik

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