On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 06:22:03AM +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
>> I'm more in favor of a mechanism that makes it easy to build field
>> names from the package name, for those rare cases where you want
>> scoped fields.
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> See the Tie::Securehash module for a variation on this theme.
> Also note that I will be proposing something similar in my
> general revamp of Perl OO (RFCs galore, probably next week).
Which is exactly what I thought of when I saw the original message. If
tying is sped up, Tie::SecureHash could become far more viable for
production code.
Michael
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