On Mon, 1 May 2000, Stas Bekman wrote:

> > It would be nice, in my opinion, to have some way of doing:
> > 
> > PerlAddVar Fred "Value 1"
> > PerlAddVar Fred "Value 2"
> > 
> > And then in your script:
> > 
> > my @values = $r->dir_config('Fred');
> > 
> > which gets ("Value 1","Value 2") in @values.
> > 
> > Any thoughts on this? (I'm not set on the name PerlAddVar, if that's
> > anyone's concern - but what about the idea of it?)
> 
> That [the name] would be confusing. How about:
> 
> PerlSetScalar Foo Bar
> 
> PerlSetArray Foo A B C
> PerlPushArray Foo D
> 
> PerlSetHash Foo key val

Sounds cool to me. Naming things is still the hardest problem in Computer
Science today... :-)

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