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

[Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>]

Chip Salzenberg writes:
 > According to Gurusamy Sarathy:
 > > I'm so disgusted by the current pseudohash API that I don't think it
 > > should live.
 > 
 > Are you talking about the deepest guts, the C API, or the user-visible
 > Perl syntax and behaviors?

(You are quoting me, not Sarathy)

I'm disgusted by the user-visible syntax.  That the first element has
to be special control data quite frankly stinks.  It looks and feels
ugly and clunky.  Maybe my sense of beauty is awry on this but that's
how I feel.

I haven't looked at the C API or the guts.

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Follow-Ups from:

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Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>

References to:

Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@activestate.com>
Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com>

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