note BrowserUk <p>I've changed the title of the post to more accurately reflect the intent of the post. <p>I thought my opening paragraph(s) made it very clear that I have no "complaint", nor was I " fault<ing> Perl's hash structure" for the vast majority of applications. <p>The <i>only</i> application I was suggesting this would be useful for is the "... perhaps the most oft-used use of hashes is as fast lookup tables..." as exampled by the referenced post [id://308711]. <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-171588"> <hr /> <font size=1 > <div>Examine what is said, not who speaks.</div> "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham<br /> "Think for yourself!" - [Abigail-II|Abigail] <br /> [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3181108.stm|Hooray!]<br /> [BrowserUk|Wanted!] </p></font> </div></div> 308947 308981