Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 03:53 PM 8/15/00 -0400, John Porter wrote: > > > >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... I think as long as equivalent (and better!) functionality is available, through equivalently terse syntax, who's to care? Why is $h{'foo'} = 'bar'; instrinsically preferable to assoc( %h, 'foo', 'bar' ); ??? or, in some possible future syntaces: h.assoc('foo') = 'bar'; # lvalue methods of highlander objects... -- John Porter Aus tiefem Traum bin ich erwacht.
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