On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:45:21AM -0800, Mark A. Biggar wrote: : Actually I like that and think that ^$x should be 0..($x-1) and that : [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be define to return the array's index set (usually : 0..$#foo) but maybe something else for a non-zero based array.
Well, as I said in my other reply, that's not a big problem for 1-dimensional arrays. But it does possibly make sense that ^ on a multidimensional array or hash would return a zip of all the key sets. Plus it generalizes ^%hash to mean %hash.keys. Flipping it the other way, does that argue that 5.keys means 0..4? Hmm. Doesn't do much for me. One of the other reasons I like ^5 is that the uparrowness of it naturally reads as "up to 5". But for containers we could certainly abstract it out to the domain. Larry
