Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying comma) with =>

[John Porter]

Stephen P. Potter wrote:
> Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and John Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whispered
> :
> | Here's a counter-proposal: throw out hashes as a separate internal
> | data type, and in its place define a set of operators which treat
> | (properly constructed) arrays as associative arrays.  It's the
> 
> Doesn't it make more sense to get rid of arrays and just use hashes?

I guess it depends on what you think makes sense; but it seems to me
that an array is a more fundamental data type; that it's easier (i.e.
more efficient) to build associative arrays from arrays, than vice versa.

-- 
John Porter