Everyone's comments are right. If you want to eek out every possible ounce of performance, arrays are faster, but for 99.99% of the jobs, hashes will do more than what you need, and they have other benefits in terms of object inheritance.

What I'm surprised no one has touched upon is:
Part of it is laziness: typing "[ ]" as opposed to "{ }", which requires a shift key.

Can you explain to me exactly how you're typing '[BAR]' without using the shift key? I suppose you could hit the caps lock key, but again, no decrease in the amount of work done.

As an aside, I did implement a class using pseudo-hashes (still use it in fact, very robust). While the whole idea may be very bad, it's worked out well for us. Our performance bottlenecks were elsewhere, though.

In reply to Re: %hash (@array && use constant) in Modules by Hrunting
in thread %hash (@array && use constant) in Modules by abaxaba

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