in reply to Cruel references

It's because you have \[] instead of just []. [] is a reference to an anonymous array, and \[] is a reference TO a reference to an anonymous array.
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Re^2: Cruel references
by uksza (Canon) on Mar 06, 2005 at 00:51 UTC
    of course!!
    Thanks a lot!
    This is right way: 
    $pets{$color}=[];
push @{$pets{$color}},"cat";

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