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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-02-27 21:57:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-02-27 21:57:40 +0000 |
| commit | 479ba38336aaacaf3a7e00a4662d83e2dc833197 (patch) | |
| tree | 3080fad85b071cb55633ac23717fd5cf28bd64e0 /pod/perldelta.pod | |
| parent | 741d59ba12a3c356a2e1dfd4bcdc0396b843a43e (diff) | |
| download | perl-479ba38336aaacaf3a7e00a4662d83e2dc833197.tar.gz | |
support fields::new() and fields::phash() to create pseudo-hash
objects and plain pseudo-hashes respectively (this avoids users
from having to diddle %FIELDS directly); update documentation to
suit (from original fields::phash() implementation by Peter
Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5293
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perldelta.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 97db6cc8c8..6d17634e9e 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -1042,6 +1042,12 @@ delete() now works on pseudo-hashes. When given a pseudo-hash element or slice it deletes the values corresponding to the keys (but not the keys themselves). See L<perlref/"Pseudo-hashes: Using an array as a hash">. +Pseudo-hash slices with constant keys are now optimized to array lookups +at compile-time. + +The C<fields> pragma now provides ways to create pseudo-hashes, via +fields::new() and fields::phash(). See L<fields>. + =head2 C<goto &sub> and AUTOLOAD The C<goto &sub> construct works correctly when C<&sub> happens |