Piers Cawley wrote:
> Garrett Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > What was the reason again which Larry rejected unifying the
> > syntax for array and hash indexing? As Piers said, we know
> > whether $a is an array or hash reference when we do:
> >
> > print $a->{foo};
>
> But as someone else pointed out, there may be classes that have both
> hashlike and arraylike interfaces. For instance:
>
> my $queue = SomeQueue.new;
>
> $queue.push('foo');
> $queue.push('bar');
> $queue.push('baz');
>
> my $index_of_foo = $queue{'foo'}; # undef if no foo in queue.
And what's to prevent that collection object from handling:
my $queue = SomeQueue.new;
$queue.push('foo');
$queue.push('bar');
$queue.push('baz');
my $index_of_foo = $queue['foo']; # undef if no foo in queue.
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