Re: RFC 136 (v1) Implementation of hash iterators

[Dan Sugalski]

At 11:30 AM 8/23/00 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>Dan Sugalski writes:
>: I have had the "Well, Duh!" flash, though, and now do realize that having
>: multiple iterators over a hash or array simultaneously could be rather 
>handy.
>
>You can also have the opposite "Well, Duh!" flash and realize that most
>DBM implementations only support a single iterator at a time.  For some
>definition of support.  That's the main reason for Perl's current
>limitation.

Fair enough. Removing the limit makes sense, though, both from a 
flexibility and a thread-safing standpoint. Might make sense for the 
hash/array slices the PDL folks want too, if that's how they get 
implemented, since I can see wanting to have many different hash or array 
slices.

                                        Dan

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