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That'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
by chromatic 3y ago
That'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.