Thanks all for the replies, very clear.

I think I will implement an accessor to the hash, I come from a Perl 
world and would build the hash in a seperate routine (to hide the 
initialisation) that returns a reference to the hash.

Would it be possible to make Hashhash inherit from Hash (by using < 
Hash) and be able to use the [][] operator immediately in a way?

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