Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying… - Larry Wall

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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

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Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.

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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.

<code>/* This bit of chicanery makes a unary function followed by a parenthesis into a function with one argument, highest precedence. */</code>

Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches.

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. - Larry Wall

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