On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:59:04 -0800, David Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:13:56AM -0600, Rod Adams wrote: > > > > Does > > > > ($k, $v) <== pop %hash; > > or > > ($k, $v) <== %hash.pop; > > > > make sense to anyone except me? > > ... the only time it's useful is > if you want to process all the elements in the hash--in which case, > why not just use C< each >?
That's true for the PerlHash implementation, but what about OrderedHash? Or LookupQueue? Still seems like a useful trick. Ashley
