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

[John Porter]

Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > Arrays can be stored compactly and
> 
> $a[1_000_000_000] = 'oh, really?' # :-)

But that is far less common than

  @a{ 0..100 } = (...);

which, if stored in a hash, would not only be significantly less
efficient than an array, but could generally be expected to elicit
some pathological behavior of the hashing function.

-- 
John Porter