Which just adds to the badness, since it's apparently not consistent with exists. This is 5.10: 
% perl -le '@a=0..4; delete $a[1]; print exists($a[1])||0'
0

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So the key "1" is present, but $a[1] doesn't exist...

If just the auto-dereference of hashes had been added (and it had worked with tied scalars overloading %{}, and it didn't give some BS can't-turn-it-off error about "breaking encapsulation" like "smart" match does for blessed hashrefs (I don't have 5.14 ATM, so I'm not sure on this part)), it would probably be fine, but auto-dereference combined with broken acceptance of arrays just seems like a disaster.

In reply to Re^3: New behavior of 'each' with respect to references by educated_foo
in thread New behavior of 'each' with respect to references by davido

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