What is different between what you call a collection (im assuming it isnt _exactly_ the same as VB calls a collection) and a hash or tiedhash?

Personally I dont understand the difference.

Consider the methods you listed.... Now lets have a look at the Tie::Hash documentation...

TIEHASH classname, LIST
STORE this, key, value
FETCH this, key
FIRSTKEY this
NEXTKEY this, lastkey
EXISTS this, key
DELETE this, key
CLEAR this
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Seems like this cover pretty much what is needed from a collection. More advanced methods could be made available through the tied() keyword, in fact you could use some intelligent parameter conventions and aliases to provide both the standard tiedhash interface and a more powerful OO oriented one as well. (For instance in one TIEHASH i wrote I did just this with the "FIRSTKEY" method)

Yves / DeMerphq
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Writing a good benchmark isnt as easy as it might look.

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