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

[Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 02:40:48PM +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> 
> 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 think I would agree. Maybe the control data should have been a magic
attached to the array.
 
> I haven't looked at the C API or the guts.

Neither have I.

Graham.

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References to:

Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@activestate.com>
Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com>
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>

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