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Organization: a) Discordia b) none c) what's that?
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:58:38 EDT
From: Jerrad Pierce <belg4mit>
>I think you are still confused as to the difference between arrays and
>hashes, which are variables, and lists, which are not.
Lists are what the CORE or a subroutine throw back at you.
Arrays and hashes are user data structures.
Often, arrays and lists can be treated similarly, if not the same.
Not so hard to get.
The assigment operator can do explicit list to array or hash conversion,
I'm just proposing that there be the ability for an implicit conversion
when calling a function with a list.
Other than the issue of semantics (array is not list), I still have not
seen:
a) why this is the Wrong Thing
b) while not the Wrong Thing, it should not be done.
c) something to refute Do What I Mean
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