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in reply to Re: •Re: Re: Get All Duplicated Elements in an Array (Once, without shifting)
in thread Get All Duplicated Elements in an Array (Once, without shifting)

This syntax has been deprecated as of 5.8. (q.v. http://perldoc.perl.org/perl58delta.html#Deprecations.) It also has issues under other versions with an attempt to free an unreferenced scalar. Looks cool, though.