Alex Francis wrote: > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Max <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > length could refer to a number of properties as could count and size > also all three are used by lots of other languages. elems is a > shortend > version of elements which describes accurately what the number > returned is. > > Max > > Out of curiosity, I did a quick google survey of what some other > languages call this. The results: > java: length > javascript: length > c#: Length > python: len > ruby: length > php: count(array), sizeof(array) (sizeof is an alias for count) > erlang: size(tuple), length(list), size(array) > eiffel: count (I think!) > > I still think 'count' is relatively unambiguous and more obvious than > 'elems', but nobody asked me to design Perl 6 - and I'm a little > alarmed to be agreeing with PHP about 'count' - so I think I'll shut up!
As far as I understand nothing in P6 is written in stone (well not yet anyway). It may well be worth asking the people on the perl6 IRC channel. I found them to be very friendly and open... Lyle _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
