[Petal] Petal::Hash - get vs. fetch

[Jean-Michel Hiver]

> Could someone who is familiar with Petal::Hash enlighten me as to the
> difference between get and fetch? I am working on a modifier that will
> take a key of an arrayref in the hash and return a random subset of
> items from the list. I'm finding that both get and fetch are returning
> the same list for me. Should I use one over the other?

It has all to do with entity encoding. Using get will encode &, <, >, "
and ' to &amp;, &lt;, &gt;, &quot; and &apos; respectively.

Within your plugins, I recommend that you use fetch to avoid double
encoding issues.

Cheers,
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