From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-06-12T14:35:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby advantages over Perl

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:06:55AM +0900, Michael Campbell wrote:
> > 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.

That because Perl mixes strings and numbers, isn't it?
But is the following possible?

item = Object.new   # replace by something meaningful
prices[item] = 20

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