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On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:03:39PM -0700, Jeffrey Friedl wrote:
> schwern <schwern@pobox.com> wrote:
> |> On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:15:12AM -0700, Jeffrey Friedl wrote:
> |> > I added a new reserved word (I can hear the cringing already) "clamp".
> |>
> |> Here's my thoughts about any new attempt to replace pseudo-hashes,
>
> My thought of clamp has never been that they are somehow a replacement for
> pseudo-hashes. They're sort of apples and oranges (although both are orbed
> fruits).
I'm worried about spawning multiple half-way solutions to the problem
and sticking them into the core.
> Since you can unclamp (or declamp, or whatever) something, it doesn't
> provide security or anything.
The declamping feature is actually very nice.
> |> clamp() unfortunately violates this. You have to put all your keys in
> |> the hash before clamping it, so there's effectively no way to
> |> distinguish between a valid key which has not been set yet and a valid
> |> key which is set to undef
>
> exists()
Here's the problem. How can I have a clamped keyset of 'foo' and
'bar' where C<exists $clamped_hash{foo}> is false?
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Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
Perl6 Quality Assurance <perl-qa@perl.org> Kwalitee Is Job One
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