Re: proposed addition to perlvar

Matt Sergeant wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Chas. Owens 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?

Good point. This: "foreach (0..$#ary)" seems like a good idea to prevent 
Obiwan errors. "$ary[$#ary]" seems a fairly unnecessary use of \W to me.

--Steffen