>>>>> "KH" == Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
KH> Hashes and arrays, OTOH, really aren't different for people. The concept
KH> of an index needing to be a nonnegative number is a computer concept.
I don't know about that. Good old PL/I had arbitrary ranges for array
indices.
Hmm, I feel an RFC coming on....
my @arr :low(-32000) :high(+32000);
my @population :low(1900) :high(2039);
$population[1923] = 323000;
How about
my @population[1900:2039];
Looks funny though.
<chaim>
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