Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> This may sound like a silly idea > > It's been suggested previously. > > >> Has anyone considered removing with the syntactic distinction between >> numeric and string indexing -- that is, between array and hash lookup? > > Yes. We rejected the idea. > > >> In particular, it would seem that >> %foo[$key] >> would be just as easy for the compiler to grok as >> %foo{$key} > > Sure. But then is this: > > $ref[$key] > > an array or hash look-up???
Decided at runtime? -- Piers