Moritz Lenz writes: > Richard Hainsworth wrote: > > > I dont think the specification regarding 'reverse' has ever changed. > > Actually it has changed. ... In Perl we usually have one operator per > operation. ... reverse() violated that principle, by doing several > different operations depending on the data type. So we split it up > into .reverse (list reversal), .flip (string reversal) and .invert > (key/value inversion).
Makes sense. For the benefit of Perl 5 programmers used to string reverse it would be nice to have a warning if reverse is invoked with exactly one string argument (but not with an array which happens to contain a string as its only element). Smylers
