Re: RFC 212 (v1) Make length(@array) work

[email protected] ("David L. Nicol") Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:37:23 -0500

Newsgroups	perl.perl6.language.subs
Organization	University of Missouri - Kansas City supercomputing infrastructure
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> 
> All I'm doing is suggesting another way, one that makes more sense for
> beginners:
> 
>   $a = length @b;
> 
> 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.
> 
> Nat




Looks good to me, then we can talk about "the implicit length function
called when evaluating an array in a scalar context" and the whole 
thing fits together that much more smoothly.




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