Well in PDL we called them 'piddles' for precisely this reason!
The problem is they ARE arrays, which perl already has, just with a
more compact storage and nicer representation.
And we ARE proposing to make them look like plain perl arrays remember!
So let's keep CALLING them arrays!
I sugg
This and other RFCs are available on the web at
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=head1 TITLE
More direct syntax for hashes
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 5 Sep 2000
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Version: 1
Number: 196
=head1 ABSTRACT
C should re
> More direct syntax for hashes
>
> Maintainer: Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 5 Sep 2000
> Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Version: 1
> Number: 196
Nat, I was thinking of writing an RFC on a related issue...
but it could piggy-back on this one (196) if you like the id
