Has anyone else run into this? I using Active State perl 5.6.1 build 626 on Win2K ver 5.00.2195. If I predeclair pointers to two hashes it will merge the entries together? I'd like to use STRICT in my programing but this will pretty much kill it. Does anyone know any workarounds, patches, etc? Did I miss something basic? Below is the test code and its output. 
# USING PREDECLARATIONS IT FAILS
my $x="";
my $another="";

print "WITH PREDECLS\n";
$x->{"FISH2"} = "FISH2";
$another->{"NONE"}="NONE";
foreach $item (keys %{$x}) {
  print "ELEMENTS: $item, $x->{$item}\n";
}

# NOT USING PREDECLARATIONS IT WORKS
print "\n\nWITHOUT PREDECLS\n";
$x2->{"FISH2"} = "FISH2";
$another2->{"NONE"}="NONE";
foreach $item (keys %{$x2}) {
  print "ELEMENTS: $item, $x2->{$item}\n";
}

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Here is the output: 
WITH PREDECLS
ELEMENTS: NONE, NONE
ELEMENTS: FISH2, FISH2


WITHOUT PREDECLS
ELEMENTS: FISH2, FISH2

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In reply to Active State Perl 5.6.1 build 626 Trashes hashes. by DanNeedles

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