Hello- I have the following in my code: 
my %hash;
$hash{"one"} = [[1,2,3],[]];

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When i try to access the first element of the array, which is [1,2,3] and print its contents, i'm surprised that the following works without generating a warning: 
print @{@{$hash{"one"}}[0]}, "\n";

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and produces the correct output: 123
I thought that perl would generate a warning and require that i use: 
print @{${$hash{"one"}}[0]}, "\n";

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That is because when i use: 
my @array = (4,5,6);
print @array[0];

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a warning message is generated and tells me that @array[0] better be written as $array[0]; Why is it not generating the warning in the first case?
Thanks a lot in advance,

In reply to accessing array elements using a reference by Anonymous Monk

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