Re: proposed addition to perlvar

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Chas. Owens <[email protected]> wrote:

> Perhaps changing
>
> C<$#> is also used as sigil, which, when prepended on the name of an
> array gives the index of the last element in that array.
>
> to
>
> C<$#> is still allowed to be used as sigil, which, when prepended on
> the name of an array gives the index of the last element in that array.
>
> would clear this up?
>

  It's not just symbolic ("name") use though:

sidhekin@blackbox[17:57:31]~$ perl -le 'print $#{[qw/a b c/]}'
2
sidhekin@blackbox[17:57:33]~$ perl -le 'print $#{\@ARGV}' a b c d
3
sidhekin@blackbox[17:57:35]~$


  Sweet, huh? :)


Eirik