At 03:20 PM 5/15/2001 -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
>At 07:47 PM 5/15/01 +0000, Ton Hospel wrote:
>> > PSEUDO-HASHES MUST DIE!
>> >
>>
>>I happen to like them
>
>I like the feature of a hash whose keys are fixed in the sense that you
>have to jump through a hoop to add a new one. Without having to download
>Tie::SecureHash and accept the other features it provides. I'd like to
>see this in Perl 6.
This should be in perl 6. It's a nice feature to have a hash with a
fixed-set of keys, and the compiler can probably get a speed boost from it
in some circumstances as well.
>I detest the pseudo-hash implementation (the part that's exposed to the
>user, I mean).
I'm pretty sure that's slated to die a quick death.
Dan
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