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On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 05:31:48PM +0200, Leon Timmermans wrote: > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > >> Which is exactly what it currently does. > > > > Except not quite, as restricted hashes let you delete their keys. > > I meant, that's exactly what it currently does for arrays. Two failures of understanding on my part already in this thread. :-( > > I'm starting to think that the least insane solution to this *is* a general > > purpose vtable interface for hashes, and a general purpose vtable interface > > for arrays, and then implement tie (and all the other existing funky stuff) > > with that. > > I started writing that once for arrays, but my previous code has > significant bitrot and I probably should start all over. There are > some tricky cases to it though, as always. Even just publishing an explanation of the problem areas would be really useful. > > It would then give the flexibility to do other stuff well, such as decently > > sparse arrays, and (I think) Reini's proposed typed arrays. > > Yeah. It's obviously useful, and currently having to using ties for > that kind of stuff simply sucks balls. Indeed. Slowly. Setting up a Perl call environment just to call some XS code is two levels of conversion you didn't want. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous