Author: skids
Date: 2009-06-09 23:21:33 +0200 (Tue, 09 Jun 2009)
New Revision: 27050
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S09-data.pod
Log:
Make 0..* versus 0..*-1 less confusing to spec greppers
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S09-data.pod
===================================================================
--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S09-data.pod 2009-06-09 21:09:26 UTC (rev 27049)
+++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S09-data.pod 2009-06-09 21:21:33 UTC (rev 27050)
@@ -609,10 +609,11 @@
=head1 Negative and differential subscripts
-The "whatever star" can also be treated as a number inside a
-standard index, in which case it evaluates to the length of the
-array. This provides a clean and consistent way to count back or
-forwards from the end of an array:
+The "whatever star" behaves differently than described above when
+it is treated as a number inside a standard index. In this case
+it evaluates to the length of the array. This provides a clean
+and consistent way to count back or forwards from the end of an
+array:
@array[*-$N] # $N-th element back from end of array
@array[*+$N] # $N-th element at or after end of array
