Perhaps you're new enough to the concept of a hash to not fully understand that any hash "bucket" acts the same as an array "bucket". In other words,
    $hash{'bucket'} = 'something';
is similar in concept to
    $array[5]='something';

If you then, say
    $array[5]='something else';
hopefully you understand that $array[5] has been written over with the new information; just extend that concept to
    $hash{'bucket'} = 'something else';

So, no this is not new behavior, but the way hashes, across all the languages that implement some sort of hash, are supposed to work.

-Scott

In reply to Re^3: Hash assignment: Undocumented feature? by 5mi11er
in thread Hash assignment: Undocumented feature? by fsavigny

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