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From:
John Porter
Date:
May 9, 2001 08:51
Subject:
Re: what I meant about hungarian notation
Message ID:
20010509115114.B17123@min.net
David Grove wrote:
> $ is a singularity, @ is a multiplicity, and % is a multiplicity of pairs
> with likely offspring as a result. ;-)

Actually, % is also simply a multiplicity, differentiated only
by the semantics of its indexing.

Which is why I argued, some time back, in favor of conflating
arrays and hashes.

-- 
John Porter
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