David Grove writes:
: Probably rehashing (no pun intended) a lost cause, but this sounds logical
: to me, if you're referring to something similar to PHP's Array['text']
: notation. I.e.,
: 
: $array[1]
: $hash{'one'}
: 
: becoming
: 
: @group['one']

Currently, @ and [] are a promise that you don't intend to use string
indexing on this variable.  The optimizer can make good use of this
information.  For non-tied arrays of compact intrinsic types, this
is going to be a major performance win in Perl 6.

Larry

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