petdance/scratch — Issue #793: [RFC] deprecated parrot_new_pointer_hash and parrot_new_cstring_hash
Author: petdance
Created: 2011-11-14 06:13:32+00:00
State: open
Labels: core, Pri-normal, rfc, Sev-medium

Hello.
Currently parrot's hash (not PMC Hash) officially supports C-strings and C-pointers as keys. I can't find any usage of it and propose to deprecate them. (And make C-string and C-pointer keys in hash it virtually impossible to make bullet-proof anyway)

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Bacek

Originally http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/780 by @bacek