Re: RFC 266 (v1) Any scalar can be a hash key

2000-09-21 Thread Graham Barr
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 03:38:50AM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 03:54:27AM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: > > =head1 IMPLEMENTATION > > > > Dunno. With my vague understanding of the existing code and hash > > tables in general: > > I believe the main reason why ha

Re: RFC 266 (v1) Any scalar can be a hash key

2000-09-21 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 03:54:27AM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: > =head1 IMPLEMENTATION > > Dunno. With my vague understanding of the existing code and hash > tables in general: I believe the main reason why hash keys can't be references is because they're not really scalars. Internally th

RFC 266 (v1) Any scalar can be a hash key

2000-09-20 Thread Perl6 RFC Librarian
This and other RFCs are available on the web at http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ =head1 TITLE Any scalar can be a hash key =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 20 Sep 2000 Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Number: 266 Version: 1 Status: Developing =head1 ABSTRAC