On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 11:15:09AM -0600, Jonathan Sillito wrote:
>  Could two parallel arrays work? One stores the lexicals (accessed by

>  index) and the other stores the names of the lexicals. Then to access a

>  lexical by name involves a sequential search through the (probably not

>  large) array of names, to get the index, then the index is used to get

>  the lexical from the other array.

>  

>  Or would that make access by name too slow?


It's how Perl5 does it (very roughly speaking)

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