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in reply to Re^4: What operator should perl5porters use for safe dereferencing?
in thread What operator should perl5porters use for safe dereferencing?

Safe can -- if (ab)used correctly -- prevent your program from dieing as well.

~Thomas~
I believe that the source code to life is written in Perl :-)

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Re^6: What operator should perl5porters use for safe dereferencing?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 04, 2012 at 17:18 UTC

    Safe can prevent die from being called, but not dying in general, or even due to "bad" derefs.

    If you wanted to change the behaviour of `->`, especially in a lexical scope, you could use an opcode checker. The autovivification pragma is an example of such.