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

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:37:21AM +1000, Jeremy Howard wrote:
> 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

$a[1_000_000_000] = 'oh, really?' # :-)

> accessed and iterated through quickly, because they can take advantage of
> the fact that they are always indexed by an integer.

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