> I know this is going pretty far back in the design process, but I was
> wondering why we're using curlies for hash subscripts, now that the %
> sticks around when you key it. Then curlies could only two
> things : Anonymous hash making and closure making. Maybe it's just too
> much culture shock?
Interesting, we don't have the typeglob anymore, so there isn't the
question of:
*typeglob[$index] = $value;
being either an array or a hash. The real problem, is the lack of
visual indication of what's going on. Try:
@array[ %hash{$key} ]
without braces looks like:
@array[ %hash[$key] ]
Now, the behaviour of array indicies and hash keys is different too.
For example, for an array these are equal (or are they?):
@array[" 1"], @array[1]
but obviously, in a hash these aren't:
%array[" 1"], %array[1]
but wait, there's more... what does:
@multi_dim[$a][$b][$c]
give?
I leave this challenge to Luke :)
Jonathan Paton
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