Java equivalent of Perl's hash

Question

I\'ve been using a lot Perl hashes due to super flexibility and convenient. for instance, in Perl I can do the following:

$hash{AREA_CODE}->{PHONE}->{S         


        

Answer 1

You're probably going to want to go with Groovy if you want this sort of flexibility but still run within the JVM. tchrist likes to ignore the point that Java is strong-typed as opposed to dynamic-typed languages like Perl or PHP - and also likes to ignore that Java is an order of magnitude faster at running, but that's just me being a "partisan", apparently.