Re: exists $foo[7] and delete $foo[7]

[Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 03:21:11PM -0800, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 23:02:35 GMT, Tim Bunce wrote:
> >On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:13:39PM -0800, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
> >> >I'm in brisk mood.  2.  I'm so disgusted by the current pseudohash API
> >> >that I don't think it should live.  I'm sorry if people have already
> >> >written books about it (hi, Damian :-) -- and I'm sorry that I somehow
> >> >missed the discussion in the past that lead into pseudohashes becoming
> >> >implemented.
> >> 
> >> I don't recall there being much discussion, no. :-(
> >
> >I suspect that that's because most people though it was a good idea,
> >at least in principle.  I still do.
> 
> I think so too (I wouldn't be fixing bugs in it if I didn't believe that).
> But I also think they're incomplete as they stand.

I agree. SO I would say leave the internal implementation there, but only
allow the syntax for delete/exists to be for hash elements.

Graham.

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References to:

Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@activestate.com>

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