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

[Dan Sugalski]

At 03:53 PM 8/15/00 -0400, John Porter 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?
>
>I guess it depends on what you think makes sense; but it seems to me
>that an array is a more fundamental data type; that it's easier (i.e.
>more efficient) to build associative arrays from arrays, than vice versa.

It's silly to throw either of them out. Perl might be many things, but a 
reductionist language it ain't...

                                        Dan

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