in reply to push to array without copying
There is one rather ugly trick for getting a reference to an array containing aliases:
my %hash = ( a => 1, b => 2, c => 3, d => 4 ); my $av = sub { \@_ }->( @hash{'d','b','c','a'} ); print "@$av\n";
But I'd likely go with BrowserUk's suggestion instead.
- tye
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