On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 11:18:04AM -0400, John Porter wrote: > Nathan Torkington wrote: > > > > Perl makes easy things easy. Hashes are bloody useful, as the last > > decade of Perl has borne out. They deserve syntactic support because > > they're used a lot and are worthy of a shorthand. > > my @aa :assoc; > > $aa['foo'] = 'bar'; > > Is no one getting my point? I get your point but I'm not over the momentum of using %hash enough to agree with you :-) To my mind, this would be the most radical language change if it were adopted. There's just too much % history and those attributes become *very* important rather quickly. But, if that's where we're headed anyway, Perl 6 is a good time to make that decision. still having reservations, -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying c... John Porter
- Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying c... John Porter
- Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying c... Kai Henningsen
- Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying c... Dan Sugalski
- Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying c... Nathan Torkington
- Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying c... Karl Glazebrook
- Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying c... Chaim Frenkel
- Hashes vs arrays (was Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace... Jeremy Howard
- Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying comma... Nathan Torkington
- Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying c... John Porter
- Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying c... Jonathan Scott Duff
- Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying comma) wit... Stephen P. Potter
- Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying comma... Nathan Torkington
- Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying c... Kai Henningsen
- Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying comma... Damien Neil
- Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying c... Russ Allbery
- Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying c... Stephen P. Potter
- Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying c... Ariel Scolnicov
- Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying c... Russ Allbery
- Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying c... Uri Guttman
- Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying comma... Dan Sugalski