On Feb 3, Michael C. Davis said:
>The CPAN documentation for Apache::Reload refers to "pseudohashes". What
>is a pseudohash? Does anyone know what they could be referring to?
The pseudohash was a short-lived hybrid array-hash. Briefly put:
$phash = [
{ this => 1, that => 2, those => 3 },
"foo",
"bar",
"blat",
];
An array reference with a hash reference as its first element was given
magical abilities. For $phash, both $phash->[2] and $phash->{that} return
"bar". Basically, if the magic didn't happen, you'd have to write
$phash->[ $phash->[0]{$KEY} ]
for $phash->{$KEY} to work.
It turns out pseudohashes are a bad idea. So they're not supported
anymore. And anyway, the documentation you pasted says NOT to use them.
>"The short summary of this is: Don't use psuedohashes. Use an array with
>constant indexes. Its faster in the general case, its more guaranteed, and
>generally, it works.
>
>"The long summary is that I've done some work to get this working with
>modules that use psuedo hashes, but its still broken in the case of a
>single module that contains multiple packages that all use psuedohashes."
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