The problem that I have with hashes is that you go through all of the work in strict to make sure you cannot mistype your variable names and then you throw it all away because there is no check for misspelled hash entries.

I have used 2 solutions to get around that in the past. One is Class::Struct, the other is pseudo-hashes. Each has their gotchas. Now I know you had some bad luck with pseudo-hashes in the Topaz effort, which leads me to a couple of questions.

First of all what do you suggest to this problem? (Want to use a hash or reference to one, but with only validated keys allowed.)

And secondly is it likely that stuff I did with pseudo-hashes is going to be low priority (ie in the 5% acceptable breakage) for Perl 5.6? (I know it is early for this question, I just would like an educated guess.)

Thanks,
Ben

In reply to RE: You can't get there from here.... by tilly
in thread References of Eternal Peril by mwp

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