On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 11:00:45PM -0500, Jeff G wrote: > new P0,PerlHash > set P0,-6,"foo" # Store the value -6 in key 'foo' of the hash P0 > set I0,P0,"foo" # Recover the value at "foo"
Very, very, cool. However, I'm not convinced that we're going about this the right way. Currently, we have vtable operations to retrieve a value by key where the key's an integer, and to retrieve a value by key where the key's a string. Of course, different PMC classes will have different ways of hashing things, so we might need a different vtable operation to retrieve by float, or by PMC, or ... Do you see what I'm saying? Basically, we need to retrieve by a generic key structure. -- Disillusion? I can make it for you at home!... Besides, why else did you come to the City of Expiring Dreams (apologies to Matthew Arnold)? -- Katherine Kaye, on Oxford.
