Not sure if this applies. But you remind me of something. I used to have quite heavy complicated hashes, and I could make creepy calls to places like @{ $master{Files}->{$rel_path}->{author}} , etc.. I was comfortable because I knew what the structure was. However.. coming back to code like that months later was torture. Wait, I need to expand on that; coming back to code like that is like fixing html markup for a living using only paper and pencil.

What's curious to me is that all that stopped when I started taking to object oriented programming. Since then I don't seem to have complex hierarchies of data that way. It seems I create little parts of them on the fly- as they are requested.

In reply to Re: Complex Hash of Hashes (New to them) by leocharre
in thread Complex Hash of Hashes (New to them) by ewhitt

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