Re: dereferencing

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 05:21:52PM -0700, Tom Phoenix wrote:

On 10/29/07, Jeremy Kister <perl-04@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 10/29/2007 7:23 PM, Aaron Priven wrote:
my $hashref = \%hash;

But as near as I can tell, there is no way to do the reverse
operation: making a "my %hash" that is an alias for a hash reference.

my %newhash = %{$hashref};

You have made a copy of the hash. I do not believe that that is what
the original poster wished, which I think would be a new hash that the
old reference points to. I don't think that what the original poster
wants is even possible, but I can't see any reason to need it, either.

Perhaps something like Data::Alias, for example, might do the trick.

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