Re (tilly) 2: on 5.5.3, waiting for 5.6.1 (was Re: Re: Adding or removing keys while iterating over a hash)

Try this:

perl -e 'my $x = 10; $x = "2" . $x; print $x + 0'
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With 5.6.0 this prints 10.

There are many other things wrong with 5.6.0, but this one is generally good enough to make the point.

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Re: Re (tilly) 2: on 5.5.3, waiting for 5.6.1 (was Re: Re: Adding or removing keys while iterating over a hash) by snax (Hermit) on Nov 30, 2000 at 17:09 UTC
Wow -- that's freaky. Dropping the `my` declaration makes the problem "go away", too.	[reply]