On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 06:40, Garrett Goebel wrote:
Or for the extremely thick:
GOOD: Separate syntax for indexed vs. named lookups
BAD: Same syntax with = 2 contextual meanings
Or, another way to look at it;
GOOD: flexible, re-usable code that doesn't care if you change the key
type
From: Piers Cawley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Garrett Goebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
$idx_of_foo = $queue['foo']; # named lookup
$nth_foo= $queue[600]; # ordered lookup
One is SvPOK the other SvIOK...
Can't we handle both and still have the ordered lookup be fast?
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On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 09:40 AM, Garrett Goebel wrote:
Or for the extremely thick:
GOOD: Separate syntax for indexed vs. named lookups
BAD: Same syntax with = 2 contextual meanings
Seriously, everyone read Damian's Seven Deadly Sins thing, if ya
haven't read/heard it already.
Michael Lazzaro wrote:
On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 09:40 AM, Garrett Goebel wrote:
out-of-place-rant
I'm disappointed that The Perl Foundation (TPF) has been so
quiet and unresponsive on support for our core language
designers and architects. I dropped a note to all the TPF
