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

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 12:48:12PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 11:09 AM 8/16/00 -0400, John Porter wrote:
> >The difference between numbers and strings is analogous to --
> >or, on further reflection, IDENTICAL to -- the difference between
> >arrays and associative arrays.  (The former are numerically indexed,
> >the latter indexed by strings.)
> 
> The analogy doesn't hold. And people treat arrays and hashes *very* 
> differently, far more so than the trivial differences in the notation might 
> lead you to believe.

Could you come up with concrete examples that illustrate this point?
What would stop people from treating arrays and hashes differently if
the trivial notational differences are removed?

-Scott
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