[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luke Palmer) writes: > I don't know what the "official" (this week) policy is, but I > think it's a bad idea for references to auto-dereference.
keys %$hash_r would bore me compared to keys $hash_r, since 'keys' can easily know that it wants a hash; in fact, I thought that autodereferencing of references in this way was something that was guaranteed from early on. I seem to remember hacking it into the Perl 6 emulator, as was.. -- "The bad reputation UNIX has gotten is totally undeserved, laid on by people who don't understand, who have not gotten in there and tried anything." -- Jim Joyce, former computer science lecturer at the University of California