This may sound like a silly idea but ...
Has anyone considered removing with the syntactic distinction between
numeric and string indexing -- that is, between array and hash lookup?
In particular, it would seem that
%foo[$key]
would be just as easy for the compiler to grok as
%foo{$key}
but would mean that we could stop worrying about the precedence of
postfix/infix "{", and things like
if %test { $count++ }
would not require whitespace before the "{" to be disambiguated.
I don't have a complete solution as anonymous array and hash construction would
still need different syntaces, but has anyone else thought about this?
- Martin
