Re: extensible structs/interoperability

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From: Martin v.Loewis
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 00:00

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In article <u7pup1bdoq.fsf@o2-3.ebi.ac.uk>,
Philip Lijnzaad  <lijnzaad@ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
>exactly: I am not talking about anys here; you were suggesting to have 
[...]
>struct item{
>  string key;
>  any value;
   ^^^
>}

Well, *I* was talking about anys... Extracting the value is much easier
if it is a valuetype, as opposed to being an any.

>Let's not confuse 'extendible structs' (for want of a better term) with hash
>tables, even though Perl equates the two 

I'm not sure what the original poster had in mind. In his posting, he 
specifically mentioned to use "extensible structs" to transfer some of
the advanced Java container types, and specifically mentioned hash tables.

Regards,
Martin

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