http://simonwillison.net/2007-05-30T23:11:35+00:00Simon Willison2007-05-30T23:11:35+00:002007-05-30T23:11:35+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/May/30/tie/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.skrenta.com/2007/05/tie_considered_harmful.html">&#x27;tie&#x27; considered harmful</a></strong></p> 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. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://www.skrenta.com/">Skrentablog</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/operatoroverloading">operatoroverloading</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/perl">perl</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rich-skrenta">rich-skrenta</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tie">tie</a></p>