in reply to Merging hashes (clobber duplicate keys)

The simplest construct to do this is probably:
%somehash = (%somehash, %override);
I would generally tackle this as:
$somehash{$_} = $override{$_} foreach keys %override;
I have seen suggestions that it should be possible to just:
push %somehash, %override;
but that isn't legal yet (if ever).