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Re: Parrot is very (intentionally) broken

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From:
Gregor N. Purdy
Date:
February 8, 2002 05:57
Subject:
Re: Parrot is very (intentionally) broken
Message ID:
1013175817.10085.36.camel@borg.oh.focusresearch.com
Simon --

I was only involved in a small amount of 'key' discussion. FWIW, I
would have thought the KEY_PAIR thingee was for (array) slice ranges,
not multidimensional indexing...

> > If the KEY* has one KEY_PAIR element which is numeric, you've got an index
> > into an array; if it has one KEY_PAIR element which is a string or a PMC*,
> > you've got an index into a hash. If it has multiple KEY_PAIR elements,
> > you're dealing with a multidimensional hash or array. 
> 
> It didn't dawn on me that KEY couldn't have multiple KEY_PAIR structures,
> so I've made it an array of KEY_PAIRS; I think this is the right thing to
> do.


Regards,


-- Gregor
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