It is experimental, and you ought to drop a line to the perl devel mailing list (or Dominus) for info about the future. Experimental things do actually go away sometimes.

Also, I'd like to point you to ArrayHashMonster from the M.J.Dominus ( http://perl.plover.com) which says ( in README) 

It's alive!  It's Aliiiive!

Is it an array, or is it a hash?  Neither!  Both!  It's a disgusting
frankenstein's monster made by sewing together bits and pieces of
arrays and hashes into a monstrous and unholy creation!

What does it do?  It manufactures an object that can be used as either
an array reference or a hash reference.

Why would you ever want such a thing?  Well, it's the natural way to
present an ordered hash.  You could then use $orderedhash->[7] to get
item number seven, or $orderedhash->{key} to get the item with the
specified key.

Or for example you could have an object that represents a directory.
$dir->[3] gets the name of file number 3 from the directory, so it is
easy to iterate over the files in the directory, and $dir->{name} gets
the stat information for the file named `$name'.  The test.pl file has
a demonstration of how to do this.

Discovery of how this works is left as an exercise for the reader.

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In reply to (crazyinsomniac) Re: Using pseudohash for argument list validation by crazyinsomniac
in thread Using pseudohash for argument list validation by rinceWind

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