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I am religious about avoiding having a hash and a hashref in scope with the same name. That way lies insanity and (a couple of refactorings later) hard to track down bugs.
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Re^5: Stupid mistakes I repeatedly make
by runrig (Abbot) on Mar 28, 2005 at 19:41 UTC
    Oh, I didn't actually have a hash and hashref in the same scope with the same name. Two functions, one with a hash, the other with a hashref, and me not paying attention to which was which. Nothing use strict couldn't find immediately.