On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 07:10:42PM -0700, TOGoS wrote:
> Why not extend this to properties, too?
I don't know of a good use case for that.
Now multidimensional arrays are common enough, and workarounds to
emulate them are enough of a pain[*], that Parrot support for them
makes sense. In contrast, abstracting all structural navigation into
one infrastructure seems more like coolness than usefulness.
[*] Emulated or specialized multidim arrays in Perl 5 (or C++ for that
matter) end up needing proxy objects to represent intermediate
lookup results; e.g. given $tiedarray[0][1], you need a proxy
object to hold on to [ [EMAIL PROTECTED], 0 ] until the [1] comes in.
Having all the keys collected together before the first lookup
avoids that hackery.
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Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
