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Re: [PATCH for discussion] new feature: clamp %hash

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From:
Michael G Schwern
Date:
July 20, 2001 15:58
Subject:
Re: [PATCH for discussion] new feature: clamp %hash
Message ID:
20010720185810.H4498@blackrider
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 03:03:16PM -0700, Jeffrey Friedl wrote:
> Two things that have not been discussed yet are how (or if) clamping should
> work with tied hashes and pseudo hashes. I know sufficiently little about
> these issues to know that I don't know enough to have an opinion.....

Pseudo-hashes are effectively dead, don't worry about them.
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/16/127257

Tying is a bit trickier... simplest way to handle it would be to add
CLAMP and UNCLAMP interface methods, no?


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