Thus it was written in the epistle of Andy Wardley,
>
> $foo -> $foo
> %foo -> $foo__hash
> @foo -> $foo__list
Andy,
With all due respect, it appears that you are trading two characters for
six with little to show for it. Currently, we have
@array -- the array as a whole
$array[ -- the scalars in the array
Then you would have
$array__list -- the array as a whole
$array__list[ -- the scalars in the array
But now we can have
$var -- definitely a scalar
and then we would have
$var -- no idea
Forcing us to use a given variable name for only one type of data is like
saying that we can't use 'use' for more than one use.
Ted
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Ted Ashton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
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... There can be no doubt about faith and not reason being the ultima ratio.
Even Euclid, who has laid himself as little open to the charge of credulity
as any writer who ever lived, cannot get beyond this. He has no demonstrable
first premise. He requires postulates and axioms which transcend
demonstration, and without which he can do nothing.
-- Butler, Samuel (1835 - 1902)
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