At 03:53 PM 8/15/00 -0400, John Porter wrote: >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. It's silly to throw either of them out. Perl might be many things, but a reductionist language it ain't... Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk
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