From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2003-06-12T11:06:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advantages over Perl

> 3) any type of object can be used as a key in a Ruby hash (Perl can
> only use strings as keys).

I don't think this is accurate.  This works perfectly fine in perl:

$hash{1.0} = "foo";
keys %hash  # => "1" or 1, depending on context.




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