Re: RFC 120 (v2) Implicit counter in for statements, possibly $#.

[David L. Nicol]

Mike Pastore wrote:
> 
> On 18 Aug 2000, Ariel Scolnicov wrote:
> 
> > Actually, this suggests that C<values @array> should return
> > C<(@array)> (a copy of the values), and C<keys @array> the list
> > C<(0..$#array)>.  But those aren't very useful.
> 
> I like the proposed syntax! I also think that C<keys @array> would be
> useful, I often use arrays as integer-based lookups (like for database

With sparse arrays, keys (@ayy) would give you the indices of the ones that
are defined


What is this discussion doing in -flow, anyway?


And the syntax for directly accessing an array element's last known
array index is ${element:n}  -- it might give you the key that was
used to find it in a hash too, but not so sure.


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