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Re: making arrays that act like hashes at runtimeby amphiplex (Monk) |
on Jul 01, 2002 at 12:07 UTC ( [id://178522]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Just for completeness' sake (as the others here said, it is propably not a good idea to use this 'feature'):
a quote from "Object Oriented Perl" by Damian Conway: --- <quote> <quote> You can add new entries to a pseudo-hash, but it's a two step procedure. First, you add a new key-to-index mapping: which maps the key "z" onto the first unused index in the pseudo-hash array. After that, you can access the new entry directly, to assign it a value: </quote> ---- </quote> which would translate to something like this in your example:
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