Re: On Pseudohashes

[Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org>]

At 02:54 PM 1/14/00 -0500, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
>Tom Christiansen writes:
> > What are their real problems?  I think for many of you, their biggest
> > problem is that they expose their underlying implementation as mere
> > arrays to the programmer's prying eyes.  They further clutter
> > themselves by placing details of their internal structure right
> > there for all to see by keeping their valid field names in their
> > zeroth element.
>
>Exhibitionism was always Perl's way of living.  I think most people
>hate is not the fact of exhibiting internals, but the choice of zeroth
>element to keep these pesky guys.
>
>2/3 seriously: what if we keep them at $array[-1]:

5/8 seriously: How about $array[undef]? Means smacking things around a bit 
so that the undef's not taken in strictly numeric context (and so ending up 
a zero), but if we do it, it has the advantage of backwards compatibility 
with the 5.005 version of pseudohashes.

					Dan

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References to:

Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com>
Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>

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