not like i'm trying to sound like i'm nit-picking, but how can the user 'add to the front or the back' when they are really just using a hash? the only hash operation which adds anything is the STORE, which should add to the 'end'.

just asking now because i was thinking about writing a tie for a hash as a simple kind of cache which after X additions to the (hash) cache only keeps the last-added 100 or so (since the values in this case are large and slowly-constructed objects).

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