Re: RFC 238 (v1) length(@ary) deserves a warning

[email protected] (Hildo Biersma) Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:19:08 +0100

Newsgroups	perl.perl6.language.subs
Organization	Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Bart Lateur wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 10:26:48 +0100, Hildo Biersma wrote:
> 
> >> length(@ary) deserves a warning
> >
> >Right now, the Lint back-end gives a warning in these cases (use of
> >array in scalar context).
> >
> >Can we make the RFC more generic, and propose to move the Lint warnings
> >into the core?
> 
> But using arrays in a scalar context usually isn't an error.

So, we make the warnings smarter and make sure they can be turned off...