On 21 Jan 2002, at 17:00, Robin Houston wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 11:38:52AM -0500, Bernie Cosell wrote: > > First, it is an *assignment* [at least to my eye], and so any solution > > that doesn't begin with "undef %a" isn't going to have 'join' semantics > > I think you must have missed the first line of my code: > > %a = (%b, %c);
You're right. my apologies, and I agree --- your code does do an outer join. I got down the wrong path partly because my default intuition [from what I typically waht to do when I mess with SQL dbs] is that I was thinking _inner_ join and then misread your code... Maybe if '^' is going to apply to hashes, there'll have to be two different operators, one for the 'inner' sense of the operation and the other for the 'outer'.... /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <--
