Could you make certain that this gets to the faq mailing list? Thanks. On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 09:50:58AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > 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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