On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 14:05:44 -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>My question/suggestion: why not get rid of @arrays and %hashes as
>separate variable types? Have all variables be scalar - with,
>of course, the ability to hold a reference to an anonymous array
>or hash. Keep the funny characters around, but only as dereference
>operators - and let @foo be equivalent to @$foo and %bar to %$bar.
>That would bring back the relationship between @foo/$foo[$i]
>and %bar/$bar{$key} and would also let the Perl5 slice notation
>stay intact.
This looks like the idea of Highlander variables to me -- so called
after the movie Highlander: "There Can Be Only One". That will be RFC 9.
<http://dev.perl.org/rfc/9.pod>
--
Bart.
