Uri Guttman wrote: [ CCs stripped ]
> ... what if you passed \$a{llama}{alpaca}? even as a read only param, > you could deref later through the ref in another sub that gets passed it > from this sub. If I understand Dan's proposal (<a05111b55b977c7a65606@[63.120.19.221]>) for a change in the KEYed methods correctly, this would work, when additionaly the KEY get's passed on with the PMC. my %a; func (%a{llama}{alpaca}); new P0, .PerlHash new P1, .KEY set P1[0], "llama" set P1[1], "alpaca" # KEY chain P1{llama; alpaca} setk? P0, P1 # assoc KEY chain P1 to P0 save P0 bsr func func ($h is rw) { print $h; $h = 'wooly'; } func: pushp restore P0 print P0 # get_p_keyed gets implicitly it's own KEY => undef set P0, 'wooly' # set_p_keyed autovivs KEY (chain) popp ret > ... but how to detect that at runtime is an issue. If the PMC carrys it's KEY around, this should work. > uri leo