Re: what I meant about hungarian notation

[Me]

Larry:
> : > 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.

Clearly the promise can be broken, so there has
to be a check somewhere along the line, right?

If there is, and the check shows you don't have a
(reasonable) integer, then perl can just switch to
a hash lookup. I'd assume you are doing
something vaguely similar to this any way, to do
sparse arrays.

If such a check is done, and the compiler code
is written appropriately, there should be no
reason why it incurs extra machine instructions
in the event of there being an integer subscript.