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It's a little late. :)
But really, I don't see how I'm more flexible for implementing Map than simply subclassing HashMap. That just seems like a lot of trouble writing delegates methods that would otherwise just be there if I subclass. It's probably because Perl is the screwdriver with which I attempt to hammer every nail, and the Perl version of hashes as one of the three fundamental data structures is indelibly marked on my mind.
I suppose it makes things easier if ever I want to use some other structure to store the data, but I can't imagine anything better than a hash for storing data. :) This is most likely a limitation on my perspective, but I don't see it. :)
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