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There was an experimental auto-deref feature since Perl 5.14 And it's already gone again since 5.24.
by ecef9-8c0f-4374 3y ago
There was an experimental auto-deref feature since Perl 5.14
And it's already gone again since 5.24.
- chromatic 3y agoThat's because it didn't work reliably. There were at least a couple of situations where Perl would have had to guess which operation you were trying to perform, so the feature was a source of potential bugs.
- ecef9-8c0f-4374 3y agoHi. I really liked your book Modern Perl. Yes unfortunately auto-deref had problems.