Re: [ID 20010702.002] perldata documents dubious hash slice

On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:02:01PM +0100, Mike Guy wrote:
> Nicholas Clark <nclark@copernicusgbs.com> wrote
> > Surely this isn't a good example, as (I think - what am I missing?)

> What you are missing is that you hadn't tried it on an older Perl:

> So it used to be an essential trick, now obsolete.
> 
> Perhaps the example should be commented "This was necessary in Perl
> versions < 5.6" ?

Ah. What I had found was that the whole section isn't in the 5.005_03 man
page. Hmm. How confusing.

Nicholas Clark

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