On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 19:24, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > If that's not the case, I need to get my head around why, since Perl
> > *does* distinguish between defined and exists.
>
> But I wish it wouldn't for arrays. That only came about to support
> pseudo-hashes which are going / have gone away.
>
> Are you suggesting that hashes should also have a default? That would
> seem consistent and at least as useful as arrays having a default.
Yes, I would expect that. In my opinion there is no difference between
an array and a hash other than the underlying storage and the
type-management of the key. I'm increasingly of the opinion that a)
there should be no @ vs %, there should be no {} vs [], there should be
a keys, values, defined, delete, exists, push, pop, shift, unshift for
every container and foreach shouldn't give a damn.
But, that would be a different language, and Perl has hashes and arrays.
So, the most we can do is make them not work too differently.
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