Would someone unfix this? 

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Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 13084 for review
From: Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:50:58 +0100
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jarkko Hietaniemi)
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Organization: very little
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On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 14:45:06 -0800, in perl.perl5.changes you wrote:

> --- perl/pod/perlfaq4.pod.~1~ Sun Nov 18 14:45:06 2001
> +++ perl/pod/perlfaq4.pod     Sun Nov 18 14:45:06 2001
> @@ -1852,7 +1849,7 @@
>  
>  =head2 How can I use a reference as a hash key?
>  
> -You can't do this directly, but you could use the standard Tie::RefHash
> +You can't do this directly, but you could use the standard Tie::Refhash
>  module distributed with Perl.
>  
>  =head1 Data: Misc
> End of Patch.

This is what Germans call "eine Verschlimmbesserung" -- trying to make
things better but making them worse in the process.

Tie::RefHash is correct. IIRC, this was patched fairly recently -- and
apparently in the wrong place (or in not enough places) and so it got
overwritten with old, bad data.

Cheers,
Philip

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