Re^3: Perl oddities

[jmcnamara]

in reply to Re^2: Perl oddities
in thread Perl oddities

In the above case yes but as the number of keys is increased the buckets will get reused and the result won't be correct:

    $ perl -le '%h = (1 .. 10);  print scalar %h'
    5/8

    $ perl -le '%h = (1 .. 12);  print scalar %h'
    5/8

    $ perl -le '%h = (1 .. 100); print scalar %h'
    33/64

:-)

Actually, I searched for a genuine use for this feature for a long time and I almost found one: Power Twool.

--
John.

[fergal]

Oops. I completely misread your original post. I thought it was elements/buckets, not used/total. That said, given Perl's non-object data model, the only other way to provide this info would be through yet another function.