On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Matt Diephouse wrote: > Am I the only one that thinks that -1st should return the last element > in an array under the nth scheme? 1st should mean the first element. > -1st should mean the first element of the reversed array. > > Don't say -1st is the "first from last". If last is the opposite of > first, I would expect 1st to mean "first from first," which would mean > the second. Say "first from the end".
It matches up with perl5 C<$array[-1]> and is a workable interpretation of negative ordinals. So I could think that way too. @ary[ 1st .. -1st ] # hmm...
