On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:27:28PM -0700, Paul wrote:
> sub pushHash (\%@) { # somebody please check that prototyping
> local *INHASH = shift;
This is clever, but should probably be avoided (mostly because it's clever).
> my %tmpHash = ( @_ );
> @INHASH{keys %tmpHash} = values %tmpHash;
> }
It'd probably be better to use one of the iterative examples, if you're
going to be sticking it in a function. They scale better with regard to
memory as @_ gets bigger.
> pushHash(\%target, @listToAdd);
This call would raise a fatal exception. The first argument must be a hash,
not a hash reference.
> or even (I *think*):
>
> pushHash %target, -x => 24, -y => 25, -z => 26;
This is the call you'd have to use.
Michael
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