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30th May 2007 - Link Blog

'tie' considered harmful (via) Rich Skrenta on the disadvantages of abstractions like Perl’s tie, which lets you create hash data structures that aren’t actually hashes. Operator overloading (as seen in Python) suffers the same problems.

Posted 30th May 2007 at 11:11 pm

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