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On Saturday 20 July 2002 07:49 pm, John Porter wrote:
> Brent Dax wrote:
> > set P0[P1], P2
> > set P0, P1[P2]
> >
> > What do you do about that?
>
> Disallow the latter. As a single op, that is.
> Decompose into a get from P1 and a set into P0.
I would argue against that. Store operations can afford to be cumbersome, but
fetching should do any optimizations that can be made to stick. That's why we
do hashing in the first place, after all.
$foo{$x}{$y}{$z} = 10;
set P0, P0[P1]
set P0, P0[P2]
set P0[P3], P4
That code assumes the KEY* goes away, which I would like. Just don't allow
more than one keyed parameter.
set P0[P1], P2[P3]
That's madness.
I don't see much use for set_p_[is]_*, since that would just mean the hash PMC
class would have to provide a default hashing algorithm instead of being able
to rely on $1->vtable->hash() (or whatever) always being available. I
sincerely hope that's how hashing PMCs is going to work, at least. :)
Ashley Winters
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When you do the community's rewrite, try to remember most of us are idiots.
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