On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 08:25:15PM +0100, Alex Francis wrote: > say @names.elems; # 3 > > "elems" seems a pretty odd choice of word. Does anyone know why any of > 'length', 'count' or 'size' wasn't chosen for this?
And why not "elements"? You would have thought that people would have learned from one of K&R (I forget which) who said that their biggest mistake in designing C and the standard library was calling the function 'creat' instead of 'create'. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig Your call is important to me. To see if it's important to you I'm going to make you wait on hold for five minutes. All calls are recorded for blackmail and amusement purposes. _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
