guess perlmonk's docs must be from 5.005_3. I checked on perl.com as well beforehand, but they have the same answer. Does that mean that perl 5.6 isn't considered authoritative yet?
Most of us with real machines to run are holding at 5.5.3, waiting patiently for 5.6.1 to be released in a few more weeks (as they've kept saying for three months now {grin}), having considered 5.6.0 as only for "early adopters". And of course 5.7.0 was "over the bleeding edge".

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

In reply to on 5.5.3, waiting for 5.6.1 (was Re: Re: Adding or removing keys while iterating over a hash) by merlyn
in thread Adding or removing keys while iterating over a hash by mischief

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