On Wednesday 01 December 2004 10:04 am, Dan Sugalski wrote: <> > And yeah, I'm throwing perl in here because it has what is reasonably > considered a bizarre type system (it doesn't have integers or strings > as types. It has "singular thing", "aggregate thing accessed via > integer offset", and "aggregate thing accessed by name" as types, > with a lot of autoconversion and context sensitive behaviour to give > people's brains a twist) but it's still a strong one -- you're just > not allowed to violate it. <>
I've always thought of Perl5 having two basic types: Scalar and List, with Hash and Array being subtypes of List. The reason is that arrays and hashes can be easily converted into each other, because of Perl5's list-flatening nature: @array = %hash; %hash = @array; The result may or may not be useful, but Perl will let you get away with it, since they're really just lists with different means of indexing.
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