Pseudo-hash == evil nightmare. You are just asking for
trouble using them. The occasional benefit of looking up
things in an ordered list using hash like names isn't worth
the nightmare that maintaining the code becomes. After
explaining that @var is the list and $var[] is the item
in a list, explain to a new programmer that $var{} is ALSO
an item in the list SOMETIMES but is usually an item in a
vaguely related hash. You wind up telling people about
'glob's and symbol tables when they still aren't sure when
$_ is able to be used. Bleagh, bleagh, bleagh.
--
friend: Can `perl -e "print 'Hello, World!';"` be simplified?
me: What? How? I guess you could make it less formal. Like
"Hi, folks." or something. Gah.
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