Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> This may sound like a silly idea
>
> It's been suggested previously.
>
>
>> Has anyone considered removing with the syntactic distinction between
>> numeric and string indexing -- that is, between array and hash lookup?
>
> Yes. We rejected the idea.
>
>
>> In particular, it would seem that
>> %foo[$key]
>> would be just as easy for the compiler to grok as
>> %foo{$key}
>
> Sure. But then is this:
>
> $ref[$key]
>
> an array or hash look-up???
Decided at runtime?
--
Piers
