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in thread What operator should perl5porters use for safe dereferencing?

Ill add a "none" option. Anyway, stick with eval if you want, me personally I think using eval for this purpose is pretty close to using a nuke to swat a fly, and about as efficient.
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Re^3: What operator should perl5porters use for safe dereferencing?
by Anonymous Monk on May 30, 2012 at 12:46 UTC

    How about a "No clue - I don't even know what this is about" for the dummies among us? ;-)

Re^3: What operator should perl5porters use for safe dereferencing?
by Anonymous Monk on May 29, 2012 at 13:48 UTC

    Anyway, stick with eval if you want, me personally I think using eval for this purpose is pretty close to using a nuke to swat a fly, and about as efficient.

    lol, are you wearing EPIC colored glasses or something?

      Looks to me like you didn't understand my reply at all...

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        Looks to me like you didn't understand my reply at all...

        So you switched to a blindfold?

        fly/nuke -- EPIC

        fly/chainsaw -- epic

        fly/flyswatter -- using eval