If a picture is worth 1000 words, maybe an example is, too: 
use strict;
use warnings;

my %dict = ( foo => [ 'foo', 'is', 'not', 'bar' ],
             bar => [ 'bar', 'is', 'not', 'foo' ] );

# push a ref to the array given by $dict{bar} onto the array given by 
+$dict{foo}

push( @{ $dict{foo} }, \@{ $dict{bar} } );

my $wordbar = ${ $dict{foo} }[3];

# accessing the definition for bar can be done through the ref, but al
+so directly

print join( ' ', ${ $dict{foo} }[4], '=', $dict{$wordbar} ), "\n";
print join( ' ', ${ $dict{foo} }[3], '=', @{ $dict{ ${ $dict{foo} }[3]
+ } } ), "\n";
print join( ' ', ${ $dict{foo} }[3], '=', @{ $dict{$wordbar} } ), "\n"
+;
print join( ' ', ${ $dict{foo} }[3], '=', @{ ${ $dict{foo} }[4] } ), "
+\n";

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In reply to Re^7: Hash part linking by bobf
in thread Hash part linking by chiburashka

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