On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 12:14:10AM -0600, Rod Adams wrote:
> So in terms of frequency of use in the English Language, I'd rank things
> in the following order:
> 1) Scalars
> 2) Sets
> 3) Arrays
> 4) Hashes
Perhaps. However, it's fairly easy to use an Array or Hash to represent
a Set, so perhaps it's better to just introduce some routines to facilitate
that.
> As for Perl Speakers, I would argue that a high percentage of the time
> someone says C< for @list {...} >, they really don't care for which
> order the elements are executed in, just that they are.
Hmmm. I wonder about that "high percentage" qualifier there; for
the code I write I'd estimate that it's as least as frequent that with
C< for @list { ... } > the order of the elements is extremely
important to me. And it's nice that I can use the same structure
(@list) for both ordered and unordered lists.
Pm
