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Eenhhhhh. (Score:1)

by Aristotle (5147)

I don’t see why we’re being forced to write the outer deref. It could be much simpler:

push $hash->{key}, 42;

Much nicer than autoboxing, too.
There’s never any more or less of a guarantee that $hash->{key} will be an array-ref anyway, regardless of which way you write it. There's never any ambiguity there either. The current rule is just arbitrary outgrowth of the prototype brain damage. A better way to approach the problem that prototypes attack would have been to provide a pre
- Re:Eenhhhhh. (Score:2)
  
  by schwern (1528) on 2007.12.24 21:17 (#59701) Homepage Journal
  
  You were starting to get into the grievance thing at the end there.
  
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