RE: pseudo-hashes? was: Data structure question

[John Hughes]

> And indeed, they ought to die. Or be reimplemented. Or something, 
> but quite simply, don't use them. They'll break, they won't dwim,
> and chances are they won't play nice with future/past versions of
> Perl. Forget they even exist.

Details?

I'm using them with no problems in 5.005_03 (the real "last stable"
version) with no problems.

exists doesn't do what you think, that's the list of problems.

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