Re: RFC 328 (v1) Single quotes don't interpolate \' and \\

2000-09-30 Thread Hildo Biersma
Nicholas Clark wrote: What do you mean by "need"? Strings need to be able to contain single quotes, but single quotes are not the only way to build a string. Single and double quotes don't generate a different fundamental type; a double quoted string with no variable interpolation also

Re: RFC 231 (v1) Data: Multi-dimensional arrays/hashes and slices

2000-09-30 Thread Karl Glazebrook
get rid of them all!! Ilya Zakharevich wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 11:39:51AM -0400, Karl Glazebrook wrote: so what is wrong with the statement '@y = 3*@x;' then ? That other constructs *also* create an array context, in which the behaviour of multiplication you propose is

Re: RFC 231 (v1) Data: Multi-dimensional arrays/hashes and slices

2000-09-30 Thread Jeremy Howard
Karl Glazebrook wrote: Ilya Zakharevich wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 11:39:51AM -0400, Karl Glazebrook wrote: so what is wrong with the statement '@y = 3*@x;' then ? That other constructs *also* create an array context, in which the behaviour of multiplication you propose is