On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 11:15:09AM -0600, Jonathan Sillito wrote: > Could two parallel arrays work? One stores the lexicals (accessed by > index) and the other stores the names of the lexicals. Then to access a > lexical by name involves a sequential search through the (probably not > large) array of names, to get the index, then the index is used to get > the lexical from the other array. > > Or would that make access by name too slow?
It's how Perl5 does it (very roughly speaking) -- "You're so sadly neglected, and often ignored. A poor second to Belgium, When going abroad." Monty Python - "Finland"
