in reply to Multiple Values for a Key

You could also use an array of arrays to maintain your order:
my @countries = ([canada, us], [england], [france, russia]);

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Re^2: Multiple Values for a Key
by Grygonos (Chaplain) on Sep 02, 2004 at 17:03 UTC

    I agree with that sentiment, if you're relating things by number, and will never need to sort by value...then array is your easiest implementation.