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Re: Keys and Indices PDD
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From:
Uri Guttman
Date:
February 18, 2002 10:27
Subject:
Re: Keys and Indices PDD
Message ID:
200202181826.NAA22570@home.sysarch.com.
>>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org> writes:
>> This is a singularly bad name, and needs to change. Probably
>> C<KEY_PART> is better. It's a shame C<KEY_ELEMENT> is so confusing,
>> since it's accurate.
DS> AGGREGATE_INDEX is good, but awfully big.
what about plain INDEX? or AGG_INDEX if you must.
>> op arg, P1[1234] # Constant integer key
>> op arg, P1[12.34] # Constant number key
DS> Do we want floating point keys? Though I suppose there's no real
DS> reason not to.
i think they would just be cast to int or string. should that be in
parrot or done at the language level and only int/string/reg are parrot
level keys?
uri
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