Re: RFC 212 (v1) Make length(@array) work
[email protected] (Nathan Wiger) Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:06:49 -0700
| Newsgroups | perl.perl6.language.subs |
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Nathan Torkington wrote:
>
> I think we're going to have to see prototypes extended to cope with
> functions like this, anyway. I'll mention this requirement in the
> next version of the RFC.
Brainstorming off the top of my head:
sub length (($|@)) {
}
That is, use a regex-like "(x|y)" - or maybe [$@%] ?? - for alternative
context coercions.
-Nate