Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying comma) with =>

[Jeremy Howard]

Stephen P. Potter wrote:
> Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and John Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
whispered
> :
> | Here's a counter-proposal: throw out hashes as a separate internal
> | data type, and in its place define a set of operators which treat
> | (properly constructed) arrays as associative arrays.  It's the
>
> Doesn't it make more sense to get rid of arrays and just use hashes?
>
No, neither proposal makes sense. Arrays can be stored compactly and
accessed and iterated through quickly, because they can take advantage of
the fact that they are always indexed by an integer. You could remove the
array/list data type and rely on Perl to try and implement hashes indexed by
integers as a list, but that would introduce a lot of complexity for little
real benefit.