Re: bad pseudo-hash, missing warning?

Pixel writes:
> 
> Something like:
> 
> use strict;
> $a = [ { a => { any => 111 } } ];
> print values %$a;
> 
> ends with "Out of memory!" (on linux, both 5.5.660 and 5.005_03)
> 
> this happened because of an programming error (thinking $a was an hash ref whereas
> it was an array ref (array of hashes))

This is almost normal.  Can anybody see a reasonable way to catch

 $a = [ { a => 2e8 } ];
 $a->{a} = 1;

?  On the other hand,

 print $a->{a}

does not allocate all this memory, so probably

 print values %$a

should not as well?

Ilya

• bad pseudo-hash, missing warning? by Pixel
• Re: bad pseudo-hash, missing warning? by Ilya Zakharevich