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I've seen quite often that Perl was reusing reference addresses after garbage collection had them released before.

So how do you want to be sure they really grow chronologically?

IIRC there are sufficient solutions on CPAN for an "ordered" hash by tieing an array to the hash.

What's wrong with them?

Cheers Rolf
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