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

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Bart" == Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Bart> So length is already picky on what it accepts. You need to turn it into

Bart>   print length(scalar(@a, 'this is a string'));

Bart> to get perl to accept it.

And then what it's accepting is the scalar-comma operator, giving you
the length of "this is a string".  Not 2.  Not the length of "2". :)

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