I want to be able to tie a scalar that's a hash element, where the hash itself is already tied. Is this not supported? I searched some and didn't find anything ... Here's some sample code that shows it doesn't work. The actual ties I'd use would be different but I want to get the general case working first. Here's the code. If I comment out the hash tie, the scalar tie works. I'm running Perl 5.6.1 on Solaris. 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;

use Tie::IxHash;
use Tie::Scalar::Timeout;

my %hash;

tie %hash, "Tie::IxHash";
tie $hash{TIMED}, "Tie::Scalar::Timeout", EXPIRES => '+2s';

print "hash tie  = ", tied(%hash), "\n";
print "TIMED tie = ", tied($hash{TIMED}), "\n";

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In reply to tying tied hash scalars by steves

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