On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 04:56 PM, Deborah Ariel Pickett
wrote:
But is it OK for a list to be silently promoted to an array when used
as an array? So that all of the following would work, and not just
50%
of them?
(1..10).map {...}
[1..10].map {...}
And somehow related to
Here are some of the answers from my own notes. These behaviors have
all been confirmed on-list by the design team:
An @array in list context returns a list of its elements
An @array in scalar context returns a reference to itself (NOTE1)
An @array in numeric (scalar) context returns
But is it OK for a list to be silently promoted to an array when used
as an array? So that all of the following would work, and not just 50%
of them?
(1..10).map {...}
[1..10].map {...}
And somehow related to all this . . .
Let's assume for the moment that there's still a
