Re: exists $foo[7] and delete $foo[7]

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 13.06 -0500 2000.01.13, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 09:18:35AM -0800, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
>> I should note that I'm not particularly attached to this going in for
>> 5.6.  Maybe we should take a vote on whether we want to keep it or
>> not.  I think I've already cast my vote by putting it in.  :-)
>>
>
>I vote a strong NO.  I see no utility in this feature, only confusion.
>delete() and exists() are well-defined for hashes.  They are not
>well-defined for arrays.  Hashes and arrays are two different data
>structures; they should have different manipulator functions.

While I agree with this sentiment, we already crossed that bridge, I think,
when we decided on implementing pseudohashes.  I am not saying these should
be extended to arrays; I think I agree that they should not be.  But you
seem to be presenting the lines as clear, and they've already been blurred.


>I dread the day when push(), pop(), shift(), unshift(), and splice() are
>extended to work on hashes...

Until we have pseudoarrays, I don't think we need to worry about it.  :)

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Follow-Ups from:

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References to:

Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>
Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@activestate.com>
Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>

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