[ID 20010425.007] hash key; pseudohashes

This is a bug report for perl from hans@kolej.mff.cuni.cz,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.


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	Dear perl team,

   I have two things. In a perl version 5.? was a deccision to understand
bareword in hash key ($hash{bareword}) as a string. I geeted this.  But
while not to do the same if using hash like array -- if there are a list of
keys, e.g.

	$STAT{dev} = 1;		# thats OK

	# dots means shortcuting here and has nothing with perl
	@STAT{dev, ino, mode, nlink,...} = (1, 2, 3, 4,...);

   These could be strings from barewords in the same way
as "dev" on the first line is.

   My second problem is similar. I also want to assign to more hash entries
as to an array. But to pseudohash, e.g.

	@st{uid, gid} = (500, 500); # OK, clasical hash, but should write ""
	$stat = [\%STAT];	# pseudo-hash
	$stat->{uid, gid} = (500, 500);		# line 8

  Results:
	:! perl-5.005 /home/hans/Perl/stat.pl
	No such array field at /home/hans/Perl/stat.pl line 8.

	:! perl-5.6 /home/hans/Perl/stat.pl
	No such pseudo-hash field "uidgid" at /home/hans/Perl/stat.pl line 8.

  The error message from perl-5.6 I consider as bug. Why concatenating the keys?!

  Results are same as if I give "" around uid, gid or the keys are already initialised
or if I use the array on the right side of assigning.

  I use perl 5.005_03 from Potato and perl-5.6 from Woody on Debian Linux.


	Best regards,

						Hans


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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=wishlist
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Site configuration information for perl v5.6.0:

Configured by torin at Sun Dec  3 23:56:54 PST 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.2.16, archname=i386-linux
    uname='linux perv 2.2.16 #1 thu aug 3 05:50:30 pdt 2000 i586 unknown '
    config_args='-de -D prefix=/usr -D archname=i386-linux -D startperl=#!/usr/bin/perl-5.6 -D privlib=/usr/lib/perl5/5.6 -D archlib=/usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux -D sitelib=/usr/local/lib/site_perl -D man1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -D man1ext=1p -D man3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 -D man3ext=3pm -D ccflags=-D_REENTRANT -DDEBIAN -DAPPLLIB_EXP="/usr/lib/perl5" -D optimize=-O2  -D cccdlflags=-fPIC -D d_dosuid=define -U usesfio -D d_csh=undef -D d_statblks=define -D i_db -D i_ndbm -U installusrbinperl -D pager=/usr/bin/pager -D perladmin=perl@packages.debian.org -D useshrplib -D libperl=libperl.so.5.6.0 -D vendorprefix=/usr -D vendorlib=/usr/lib/perl5/5.005 -D vendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define 
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O2 ', gccversion=2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -DDEBIAN -DAPPLLIB_EXP="/usr/lib/perl5" -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -DDEBIAN -DAPPLLIB_EXP="/usr/lib/perl5" -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc-2.1.3.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.5.6.0
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.6.0:
    /usr/lib/perl5
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.6
    /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux
    /usr/local/lib/site_perl
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.005
    .

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Environment for perl v5.6.0:
    HOME=/home/hans
    LANG=cs_CZ.ISO-8859-2
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LC_COLLATE=cs_CZ
    LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

• [ID 20010425.007] hash key; pseudohashes by Hans Ginzel
• Re: [ID 20010425.007] hash key; pseudohashes by Ronald J Kimball