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

[Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:13:39PM -0800, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 22:07:38 +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > > Currently my choices are these:
> > > 
> > >   1. remove exists/delete support for arrays, keep them for pseudo-hashes
> > >      (pseudo-hashes will still remain experimental)
> > >   2. remove exists/delete support for arrays, and remove/deprecate
> > >      pseudo-hashes altogether
> >
> >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.

Tim.

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Follow-Ups from:

Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@activestate.com>

References to:

Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@activestate.com>

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