best idiom for insert if not present; else use value in assoc array

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 2/7/13, Dan <dbdavidson at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I believe this would have to be done at the level of
> AssociativeArray and can not be done as a helper function, since
> this set helper is still doing 3 hashes/lookups.

Feel free to file an enhancement request.