Re^2: When will "Using a hash as a reference is deprecated" be enforced?

I didn't know about this either, but I just looked it up and it appears you can use a hash just like a hash-ref and it will work (but give that warning):

perl -Mwarnings -Mstrict -e'my %a = ( a => 1); print %a->{a}'
Using a hash as a reference is deprecated at -e line 1.
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Re^3: When will "Using a hash as a reference is deprecated" be enforced? by shmem (Chancellor) on Mar 22, 2007 at 23:42 UTC
Wow. I wonder how much thought and discussion went into this dwimmery now deprecated? What more of the like is in perl that I don't know? I'm unable to interprete the shudders runinng down my back after knowing this right now. Pleasure? Fright? Have to work that out... --shmem _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ / /\_¯/(q / ---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."· ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}	[reply]
Re^4: When will "Using a hash as a reference is deprecated" be enforced? by mreece (Friar) on Mar 23, 2007 at 00:06 UTC
What more of the like is in perl that I don't know? got me thinking, so i tried it with an array. wacky! % perl -Mwarnings -Mstrict -e 'my @a = (1); print @a->[0]' Using an array as a reference is deprecated at -e line 1. 1	[reply]