Problem with mixing arguments, which is hash bad not contain dash as first character.

[kocoureasy]

Hi,
when I have defined hash argument for CGI->hidden() function which contain keys without dash, so in new perl is sometimes checked as array argument and not as hash.
For example this:

my $p = {
'-default' => [''],
'class' => 'class_set',
'-name' => 'name_set',
'id' => 'id_set'
};

In new perl isn't hash sorted, so sometimes happens that on first position is key which doesn't have dash character.
My proposal patch

fix_hash_argument.patch

Regards
Igor

[leejo]

Hi, looks reasonable - will get this patched and uploaded shortly.

[leejo]

@kocoureasy - this unfortunately breaks backwards compatibility, see #271. We will have to revert unless you can come up with a fix?

[leejo]

I've reverted the changes and pushed to CPAN (v4.69). I'm still happy to take a patch to fix this issue, so will re-open it. Test coverage needs to take into account existing behaviour however, as noted in #271