Re: summarizing the obvious (was: arrays, hashes unified ...)

2003-02-02 Thread Sam Vilain
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

Re: summarizing the obvious

2003-01-31 Thread Michael Lazzaro
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.