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zengargoyle | 3 years ago 

    $ perl -E 'my $f=[[{X=>{Y=>["FOO"]}}]]; say $f->[0][0]{X}{Y}[0];my $g=$f->[0][0]{X}{Y}; say $g->[0]'
    FOO
    FOO
Seems pretty trivial.

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contingencies|3 years ago

Yeah now try iterating. What used to get me is for some types $ is used only when de-referencing. It was terrible trying to track those errors down. Basically I loved perl but the language has a terrible design, inexcusable really. There was essentially no point in having types, it took all the worst parts of C and then reinvented them slightly differently with new syntax, twice per datatype. Glad to be rid of it.