On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 02:59:02PM +0200, Ingo Blechschmidt wrote: : Hi, : : is binding hashes to arrays (or arrays to hashes) legal? If not, please : ignore the following questions :) : : my @array = <a b c d>; : my %hash := @array; : : say %hash<a>; # b : push @array, <e f>; : say %hash<e>; # f? : %hash<X> = "Y"; : say [EMAIL PROTECTED]; # ??? : # <X Y> (or X => "Y"?) appended to the end of @array? : : It seems to me supporting this is hard to get right...
As with the scalar binding I'm inclined to disallow it for now. Our theme this year: "Be strict now--we can always relax it later." Of course, I shall probably violate that myself when I get around to answering Autrijus on return type checking... Larry
