Re: Variable attributes (was Re: RFC 355 (v1) Leave $[ alone.)

[John Porter]

Peter Scott wrote:
> 
> Maybe I'm just being dense, but why shouldn't arrays and hashes inherit 
> attributes from UNIVERSAL? 

I think, rather, they should inherit from some other root class,
since UNIVERSAL is for blessed things.


> Hmm, am I saying that I should be able to 
> write @array->method()?

Of course you already can, just not with that syntax:

        scalar(@array)
        $#array
        keys(%hash)
        values(%hash)

etc. etc.

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