in reply to Re: Autovivifying XS routine
in thread Autovivifying XS routine

Sounds like you really want
@{ gimme_a_ref() } = ( 1, 2, 3 );
You are right, I entirely mistyped the first of the examples. Sorry.

Thanks for the pointer to Want. I haven't looked at the code, but it seems it does exactly what I want to do (plus a lot more).

Anno