in reply to C-Style Struct?

How about: 

my %thing = ( name => 'thing', count => 0, list => [] );

++$thing{ count };
print $thing{ name };
print $thing{ list }[ 123 ];

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Re^2: C-Style Struct?
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 08, 2012 at 13:52 UTC
    $thing{y}="shock";
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