I humbly seek wisdom. The book of perlref says "When a scalar is holding a reference, it always behaves as a simple scalar" (Description, paragraph 5, verse 3)

Why then can I not put a hashref on a queue in Thread::Queue?

Example: 

my $DataQueue = Thread::Queue->new; 
my $href = {'A'=>'1',
            'B'=>'2',
            'C'=>'3'
           };

$DataQueue->enqueue($href);

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which produces: 

Invalid value for shared scalar at C:/Perl/lib/Thread/Queue.pm line 90
+.

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I understand that Thread::Queue only supports scalars, but I thought a reference was a scalar.

Also, is there a way to trick PERL into treating $href as a scalar?

In reply to scalars, references and queues by Anonymous Monk

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