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Nick Ing-Simmons <nick@ing-simmons.net> wrote
> Treating a tied ARRAY as a hash should trigger the pseudo hash code.
> (I gave this a passing thought when doing TIEARRAY fixes.)
But that doesn't work, as my original example showed. The problem is
that TIEARRAY gets called instead of TIEHASH.
What I presume is happening, without having done much research, is that
when you do
tie %$avhv, ...
the % dereference correctly understands about the pseudo-hash case,
and stacks the AV instead of an HV. But it leaves no indication
that this reference should "really" be thought of as a hash. So
the tie code just tests the reference type and calls TIEARRAY.
> Likewise a tied HASH should be usable as the index hash.
> Now whether either _works_ is a different story - anyone want to
> write a t/*.t type testcase?
The latter already has a test case in t/op/avhv.t, presumably by yours
truly. I only discovered this after writing my own test. :-(
Mike Guy
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