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

[email protected] (Bart Lateur) Mon, 18 Sep 2000 20:49:24 +0200

Newsgroups	perl.perl6.language.subs
Organization	MediaMind
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On 13 Sep 2000 07:07:42 -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:

>Make length(@array) work

One more thought: 

>Many newbies think of the number of
>elements in an array as its "length"

Doesn't this reflect C's idea of "a string is an array of characters"?
Which isn't the idea behind strings in Perl. The basic idea is wrong.
Therefore, making length(@array) work, would be a wrong signal.

-- 
	Bart.