Re^3: the annoying keys "key" and "value"

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Re^4: the annoying keys "key" and "value" by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 24, 2010 at 02:53 UTC
I believe he means "unduly hard to use". That may or may not be true depending on what's needed of the data.	[reply]
Re^5: the annoying keys "key" and "value" by Anonymous Monk on Dec 24, 2010 at 03:08 UTC
Hmm, that doesn't clarify it for me	[reply]
Re^6: the annoying keys "key" and "value" by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 24, 2010 at 03:40 UTC
Say you want an associative array. With a hash, a lookup would look like `my $val = $hash{$key};` [download] With the OP's structure, a lookup would look like `my ($val) = map $_->{value}, grep $_->{key} eq $key, @$data;` [download] That makes it a "pathological" structure to use as an associative array. However, it's an appropriate structure to store ordered key-value pairs.	[reply] [d/l] [select]