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I dont think its fair to equate each(%hash) and filehandles, the reason being that I can have multiple filehandles open on the same file without any interference problems. But with each, you have to always consider that any traversal of the hash has to be completely independent. Thus a routine that takes a filename and traverses the file calling out a callback to process each chunk is totally safe. The equivelent routine that takes a hash and traverses it using each calling out to a callback runs the serious risk that the hashes iterator will be reset or changed by user code.

I can think of all kinds of behaviour that is totally safe with filehandles and is not safe with each(%hash). They just aren't the same thing.

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In reply to Re^7: Spot the bug by demerphq
in thread Spot the bug by tlm

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