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Me writes: : 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, They won't, but go on. : do you think conflating @ and % would be a perl6 design win? Nope, I still think most ordinary people want different operators for strings than for numbers. Dictionaries and calculators have very different interfaces in the real world, and it's false economy to overgeneralize. Witness the travails of people trying to use cell phones to type messages. LarryThread Previous | Thread Next