in reply to Re^3: Sharing DBI between threads
in thread Sharing DBI between threads

it allows interchange of HASH references and integers

I'm guessing that he means: 

print $href, '-', 0+$href;;
HASH(0xacaa0) - 707232

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But as you say misunderstands that you can't (easily) go the other way. Also, perhaps he forgets that C allows you to cast a pointer to an integer; but more significantly cast an integer to a pointer (to anything).

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