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May 10, 2001 04:26
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Re: what I meant about hungarian notation
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Larry:
> Currently, @ and [] are a promise that you don't intend to use string
> indexing on this variable.  The optimizer can make good use of this
> information.  For non-tied arrays of compact intrinsic types, this
> is going to be a major performance win in Perl 6.

Assuming that optimization opportunities remained intact,
do you think conflating @ and % would be a perl6 design win?
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