"but surely the guy is intending it to be used as a hash?"

I'm not a mindreader. HTML::LinkExtor is a pretty mature module, and I doubt the interface should/will change.

You can certainly try to persuade the guy (perlsonally i'd rather just write HTML::LinkExtractor which would do all the things you say here, but would also extract the link text (stuff in between <a ..> </a> tags).

" One useful attribute of it being a hash would be to clobber incorrect HTML where a link had two HREFs. "

You don't have to worry about that (when in doubt, test). 

use HTML::LinkExtor;
my $p = new HTML::LinkExtor(
    sub {
        print "@_\n"
    },
);
$p->parse( q{
<a href="BUTTER"    href="SCOTCH">
<img src="AND" src="PEANUTS">
});
__END__
a href SCOTCH
img src PEANUTS

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