Re: no autovivify?
[email protected] (Tom Christiansen) Tue, 29 Aug 2000 18:25:04 -0600
| Newsgroups | perl.perl6.language.data |
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| Message-ID | <7486.967595104@chthon> |
>Tom Christiansen wrote: >> >> If you can no longer grow hashes or arrays on demand, does this >> extend to strings not being able to get bigger, and to integers not >> being able to become floats? >> >> --tom >Exactly. What do you think :closed should do, Tom? Something more like old :ronly hack? :-) I've never actually wanted to limit my numbers, strings, or arrays. And the only reason I've ever wanted to limit my hashes is when I was thinking of them as records, not hashes, and wanted typo-protection. Implicitly creating things on demand is quite perlish, no? -tom