Re: Arrays, lists, referencing

2003-02-14 Thread Luke Palmer
> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:38:59 -0800 > From: David Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Some random musings, for what they're worth... > > 1) The fact that we've had this long thread about arrays and shows >that they are confusing. How could we change the >functionality/eliminate the differ

Re: Arrays, lists, referencing

2003-02-14 Thread David Storrs
Some random musings, for what they're worth... 1) The fact that we've had this long thread about arrays and shows that they are confusing. How could we change the functionality/eliminate the differences so as to simplify things? 2) It seems that the functionality of lists is a proper subs

Re: Arrays, lists, referencing

2003-02-14 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 05:50 PM, Deborah Ariel Pickett wrote: All right, I'm prepared to buy that. Now how would it extend to hashes? A %hash in list context returns a list of its pairs (NOTE4) A %hash in scalar context returns a reference to itself (NOTE1) A %hash in numeric (sc