Re: proposed addition to perlvar

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Matt Sergeant <[email protected]> wrote:
>>   my @a            = ("a", "b", "c");
>>   my $last_index   = $#a;     # $last_index is 2
>>   my $last_element = $a[$#a]; # $last_element is "c"
>
> Do we want to "encourage" this kind of use or prefer to encourage the [-1]
> format?

Maybe this instead:

  my @a = ("a", "b", "c");
  say "Element $_ is $a[$_]" for 0 .. $#a;

-- David