Good day, Monks.

For as long as I've been writing Perl, I've felt there must be better ways to do code some of the things I usually code. I stand before you with my first question.

I'm having trouble with a simple data structure that seems to have gotten wildly out of control. It's a regular hash of keys and values, but two of the values are references to arrays. 
%hash;
 $hash{'normal'} = "Some value" ;
 $hash{'list1} = [] ;

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Then I use the list reference to add an unspecified number of hash references to my data structure. 
push @{ $hash{'list1'} }, {keys=>values} ;

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Now I can access this like so: 
$foo = $hash{'list1}[0]{'key'} ;

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I'm quite interested in how a PerlMonk would do this.
I'm rethinking my code base, and I need a structure like this to store data for my Tk programs. I'm currently assigning the address of the element to -textvariable options. 
$widget{'foo'}=$mw->Entry(-textvariable => \$hash{'normal'});

# and for dynamicly created, repeating elements
$widget{'bars'}[0]{'bar1'} = $mw->Entry( -textvariable => \$hash{'bars
+'}[0]{'bar1'} ) ;

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The problem gets really messy when I try to do things like: 
#for storing past data (think 'back button')
push @past_data, \%hash ;

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I can't do this because %hash is full of references. It gives me a headache.

Any Ideas, Opinions, or Comments would be appreciated.
Bro. Doug The Inert.

In reply to Hashes of Arrays of Hashes (sometimes of Arrays) by Bro. Doug

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