Re: what I meant about hungarian notation

[David L. Nicol]

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!




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