From: Tom Gilbert <tom@...>
Date: 2002-07-23T21:45:04+09:00
Subject: Re: bdb and $=

* ts (decoux@moulon.inra.fr) wrote:
> >>>>> "T" == Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk> writes:
> 
> T> Is this a bug?
> 
>  You can call it a bug but see [ruby-talk:36573] and [ruby-talk:36856]
> 
>  http://www.ruby-talk.org/36573
>  http://www.ruby-talk.org/36856

$= is obselete? Damn, that's news to me.

Now, I can wrap the Hash, but I have to point out that the lack of $=
sucks. My has_key? implementation will have to iterate over every key in
the Hash, and compare using tolower. This is slow as poop, plus a lot of
these kind of modules (don't know about bdb explicitly) may have access
to some nice efficient way of doing case insensitive comparisons (a flag
to toggle use of strcasecmp() or whatever), and without $= I can't
access it :(

What's the point of a Hash interface when I have to iterate over every
key for each lookup? :(

Tom.
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