On 6/1/07, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nope. Hash is mostly about meaning, and very little about implementation. Please don't assume that I name things according to Standard Names in Computer Science. I name things in English.
Then why did we need a separate "use English" pragma? :) Are you the one who originally came up with "hash" for %vars? IIRC, they were officially called just "associative arrays" through Perl4, but "hash" was a well-understood community nickname for them for some time before you canonized it with ref($var) eq 'HASH' in Perl5... -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
