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From: Peter Scott <Pe...@PSDT.com>
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Subject: Re: Unable to debug Perl script
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:15:00 -0400, smallpond wrote:
> FWIW, google finds a short method of generating this error.
> 
> This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
> 
> perl -Te '@{%h}{x}'
> Bizarre copy of HASH in leave at -e line 1.

Elegant.  Looks fixed in 5.10.  Either change 27350 or 25808.

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Peter Scott
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