Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 9:03 AM +0200 9/16/02, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
>> In PASM they look the same. But as Dan stated, and as tried to show in
>> my answer to Graham, the lookup succeeds only if the nested PMCs are
>> all of the correct type. This works now because an array doesn't
>> support a string as key, while a perlhash doesn't support an int as key.
>>
>> So the wrong types will produce either "Not a string!" or "Not an
>> integer!".
>
>
> I've been thinking that we do need to have an extra flag to note whether
> a key element should be taken as an array or hash lookup element. The
> integer 1 isn't quite enough, since someone may have done a %foo{1} and
> we only have that in as an integer key.
There are IMHO 2 solutions for this:
- the HL takes care of this, so imcc sees: _HV_foo["1"]
- assembler/imcc takes care of this: P0[1] => array, P0{1} => hash and
generates a string key for the latter.
leo
