Re: what I meant about hungarian notation

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 12:43:13PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
> John Porter wrote:
> > 
> > Larry Wall wrote:
> > >
> > > : do you think conflating @ and % would be a perl6 design win?
> > >
> > > Nope, I still think most ordinary people want different operators for
> > > strings than for numbers.
> > 
> > Different operators, conflated data type.
> > 
> > That's what we have for scalars already.
> > 
> > Makes sense to have it for containers indexed by scalar as well.
> 
> 
> add an explicit accuracy limit
> 
>       @container : accuracy 0.01;
> 
> and you've got a language where
> 
>       $container[2/3]
> 
> is guaranteed to access the same slot as
> 
>       $container[.6668]
> 
> Now that's what I call going up to eleven!

Suddenly, I feel like going back to C...

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