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>>>>> "TC" == Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com> writes: TC> The overhead is not that it should be a module, but rather, TC> the sillily/evilly inefficient thing that *you* are doing. TC> Or trying to do. Why, For example, I need it as a sorted array 90% of the time. Some of the time I need/want to add a unique element. So, what do I do, keep it as an array and sort every time I access it? Keep two copies one as the hash the other as an array? TC> We have modules to do this. We have hashes to do this. TC> We have the technology. It is ignored. Ignorance of TC> technology is no excuse for adding strange basic types TC> and operations on them into the very heart of a programming TC> language. I'm not ignorant of the technology. But having a method that directly represents my thought process, and does something that I need would be a win for me. Time for another missive in language design of why pop and push, shift and unshift are in, but union and intersection are not. <chaim> -- Chaim Frenkel Nonlinear Knowledge, Inc. chaimf@pobox.com +1-718-236-0183Thread Previous | Thread Next