Re: Re: Re: how to avoid mis-spelling hash keys?

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(jeffa) 4Re: how to avoid mis-spelling hash keys? by jeffa (Bishop) on Jan 05, 2003 at 18:53 UTC
I don't know how reliable this source is: Pseudo hashes will die, but it's not the first time i have heard this news: Pseudo hashes (the strange things that appeared with the compiler in in 5.005-or-so) will die. They're depreciated in 5.8, and will be gone from 5.10, because they slow down all hashes and all arrays (by about 15%, Schwern calculates). The functionality which currently is implemented with pseudo-hashes (fields.pm) will remain, probably using the new restricted hashes. jeffa mmmmm ... restricted hashes	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: how to avoid mis-spelling hash keys? by pg (Canon) on Jan 05, 2003 at 19:20 UTC
It is true that pseudo-hash is now deprecated in Perl 5.8 and will be removed in perl 5.10, and this is stated in perlref coming with 5.8.0. (search for pseudo-hash in perlref) However the "use fields" pragmas is still there, and will be there for (at least) a while, but likely will point to a different implementation. Update: Some monks may not have 5.8 downloaded, let me just add a link to the online version of 5.8 perlref	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: how to avoid mis-spelling hash keys? by janx (Monk) on Jan 05, 2003 at 19:00 UTC
I'm not sure what really happened to this discussion (it's quite long ago now - at least seems to be ;-)), but this thread on P5P might answer a lot of your questions. A quick search on the P5P-archive might enlighten you, too. regards, janx	[reply]
Re(4): how to avoid mis-spelling hash keys? by BrentDax (Hermit) on Jan 06, 2003 at 22:56 UTC
The pseudo-hash feature has been deprecated as of 5.8.0, but `fields.pm`/`base.pm` will be retooled in future versions of Perl so they can be used the same way. (Except for `fields::phash()`, of course...) =cut --Brent Dax There is no sig.	[reply] [d/l] [select]