Michael Fowler wrote:
> Tearing out the pseudohash code gives an across the board 10-15%
> gain in speed in basic benchmarks. That means if we didn't have
> pseudohashes, normal hashes would be just as fast as fully declared
> pseudohashes!
>
> So don't mourn their passing.
But there is another good thing about the pseudo-hashes: their
usage together with "use fields" like in:
use fields qw ( receive transmit );
sub new
{
my $proto = shift;
my $class = ref($proto) || $proto;
no strict "refs";
my MyClass $self = [ \%{"${class}::FIELDS"}];
...
The pseudo-hashes have no autovivification - therefore
$self->{recieve} will result in an error. When using
hashes, the new hash entry is created without my knowledge.
Maybe that is not a problem when you are using a sophisticated
IDE that knows your classes and the fields that you would
like to use ... but for example my IDE is called
X (http://www.interlog.com/~bwt/x2main.htm) and not that smart ;-(
And typing "recieve" instead of "receive" might happen
quite often and will then lead to very-hard-to-find bugs ...
And as far as I understand there is no way to avoid this
behaviour when using hashes.
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