Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and cmp operators

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:28:51PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2000 15:40:00 -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> 
> >Perl currently only has C<eq> and C<cmp> operators which work case-sensitively.
> >It would be a useful addition to add case-insensitive equivalents.
> 
> Next you'll want case)insensitive hashes! Er... actually, that sounds
> rather useful, even more than your ideas, which can be easily emulated.
> 
> Suppose you want to keep the case on the hash keys, because you
> enumerate them. But you still want to find hash entries in a case
> insensitive manner...

tie, TIEHASH, FETCH.

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