Re: RFC195: Do not remove 'chop' PLEASE!

[abigail]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 12:59:53PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 04:28:08PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Aliasing again. They keys are copies, the values aliases.
> 
> How bizarre?  Why does it work that way?

keys HASH returns copies of the keys, while values HASH returns
aliases the values (new in 5.7).

I don't know why, perhaps so you could modify them easily:

    for (values %hash) {s/foo/bar/}

just like you can do for arrays.



Abigail