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in reply to Re: my Dog $spot;
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My first "A-ha!" moment of the morning - I have some old code I maintain that does exactly that my Dog $spot; thing, and has pseudo-hashes - now I know the reason ! - I always thought it was because the original author of the code was a Java programmer feeling homesick...

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