I think tlm is right, I should be using HOH here, so I will be doing a bit of code rewrite.

One disadvantage of HOH that occurs to me right away though, is if I mistype a key when setting a value in the hash, I don't get any type of error message. I often have autovivification errors that arise in this kind of way.

Is there any way to program defensively against this kind of error? One thing that occurs to me is I could just use the "functions as constants" thing that ikegami mentions earlier. Anyone else have other defense programming suggestions for dealing with this and autovivification with HOH?

In reply to Re^2: HOA with array slice? by tphyahoo
in thread HOA with array slice? by tphyahoo

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