hashes' ordered keys [was: Re: S5 tr concern]

2004-09-08 Thread Michele Dondi
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Luke Palmer wrote: $downcaserule = 'A-Z' = 'a-z'; $l33trule = 'EISTA' = '31574'; $str =~ tr( { $l33trule, $downcaserule } ); may or may not do what the naive reader expects, and randomly so! [snip] or not. the point is that it's only undefined for

Re: more ordinal discussion

2004-09-08 Thread Juerd
Michael Homer skribis 2004-09-08 15:54 (+1200): I think (correct me) what he's getting at here is a sparse array 1=a, 3=b, 4=c where 2nd is 'b' (the second item) but 1st+1 is undefined (there is no index 2). I don't know how well that scheme works from a comprehension point of view though,

Re: more ordinal discussion

2004-09-08 Thread Jonathan Lang
Juerd wrote: Michael Homer skribis 2004-09-08 15:54 (+1200): I think (correct me) what he's getting at here is a sparse array 1=a, 3=b, 4=c where 2nd is 'b' (the second item) but 1st+1 is undefined (there is no index 2). I don't know how well that scheme works from a comprehension