On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:55:37PM -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
: David Formosa (aka ? the Platypus) <dformosa@[...].au>  wrote:
: >  If you consider arrays to be hashes keyed by integers then @a >>..<<
: >  @b does the equiverlent of an inner join.  I would suggest that if we
: >  are going to have outer join versions then we have something like this
: 
: It does?  I thought that when +@a != +@b, the shorter one got
: "extended" with undefs...

Yes, though now we might consider extending it with identity values
for those operators that define one.  I can argue that both ways,
which probably means it needs to be a pragma.  Likewise it might be
operator and pragma dependent how two mismatched mishmashed hashes
are to be intertwingled.

Larry