Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 8:47 AM +0000 1/28/03, Piers Cawley wrote: >>Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Sure. But then is this: >>> >>> $ref[$key] >>> >>> an array or hash look-up??? >> >>Decided at runtime? > > How? People use strings as array indices and ints/floats as hash > indices, and count on autoconversion to Make It Work.
Nope. The count on the fact that, at runtime you'll know whether $ref is a hash or an array. But I'm not actually arguing for this, just pointing out that it's not necessarily impossible (just way harder to optimize). -- Piers
