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

[Casey R. Tweten]

Today around 11:18am, Nathan Torkington hammered out this masterpiece:

: Randal L. Schwartz writes:
: > This proposal makes length() an un-prototypable (and therefore
: > unoverridable).  Do you have a proposal for how to handle that?
: 
: Do we really want everything in Perl to be overridable?  What
: use is an overridden length()?

Leave length() the way it is now and, if one so desires, they may override it on
there own to use length for getting:

scalar ARRAY
scalar LIST
scalar HASH
scalar keys HASH
scalar values HASH

and what ever else you want to manipulate length into.

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