in reply to Re: creating defined references to arrays of size zero
in thread creating defined references to arrays of size zero

my $CurrentArrayRef = $Stacks{nonexistant} || [];

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Better yet: 

my $CurrentArrayRef = $Stacks{ nonexistant } ||= [];

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This initializes $Stacks{ nonexistant } conditionally, and assigns its value to $CurrentArrayRef, thereby making this line: 
# Now (re)store the contents into the stack
$Stacks{nonexistant} = $CurrentArrayRef;

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unnecessary.

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