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'.

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