bpa wrote: 
> The changes is from Perl 5.18 onward.
> 
> In all discussion the use of env variables is advocated only as a
> workaround - the comments all say the proper solution is to write your
> code to accept that the order is inconsistent as that is the language
> defn.  The fact that it was consistent was an accident and your code
> should not have assumed a consistent order. 
> 
> I haven't played around with env vbs but the answered is suggested in
> the last post the thread you referenced but this is not the correct
> approach - there is no guarantee these variables will remain in Perl.

I concluded the env variables don't work.  The problem is the default
hash algorithm has changed too and this is a compile time option.  (So
whilst you can change the seed values, the algorithm is different so it
is not possible to get back to the old order at run time)


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