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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