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On Thu Nov 29 02:44:21 2007, A_M_C@bigpond.net.au wrote: > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > In the documentation for Hash::Util::FieldHash, the section > Garbage-Collected Hashes says that deleting a key whilst iterating > through the hash will cause bad things to happen (I paraphrase). This > is > at variance with a recent posting by Mark Dominus at > http://blog.plover.com/ where he says that adding keys will cause > unpredictable behaviour but deleting keys will not. In fact a fair bit > of trouble was taken Larry Wall to make sure it doesn't. > > Assuming MJD is correct and the implementation of hashes in 5.10.0 > hasn't changed this behaviour (it was current at 5.8.8) the > documentation should warn about *creating* objects whilst iterating > over > fields. > I am attaching the relevant section of the POD for Hash::Util::FieldHash as it appears in Perl 5.14.2. p5p list: Does the OP's contention about the documentation have merit? If so, what is to be done? Thank you very much. Jim Keenan --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: new https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=47948Thread Next