Bart Lateur wrote:
The problem is that
$name = "myarray";
@$name = (1,2,3);
print @$name[0,1]; # 1,2
Is very consistent currently. Change one and you have to change the
precedence and parsing of all symbolic refs.
You are suggesting to keep a weird precedence rule, just
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 19:26:38 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
I agree with both of you. It would be nice if @$ precedence worked as Bart
specified, but I still think that arrays should be arrays.
The problem is that
$name = "myarray";
@$name = (1,2,3);
print @$name[0,1]; # 1,2
Is very
On 20 Sep 2000 04:06:02 -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
Ilya Zakharevich brought up the issue of a potential problem with
objects which use blessed list references as their internal structure,
and their use as indices. Given a Bignum class, which stores its
(external) value internally as a
Bart Lateur wrote:
Hmm... the problem is, I think, that array references and ordinary
scalars are both scalars.
That's true, but they're scalars with different interfaces. In particular,
an array ref can be dereferenced and provides an array in doing so. If an
index can do this, then it's a
This and other RFCs are available on the web at
http://dev.perl.org/rfc/
=head1 TITLE
Arrays: Use list reference for multidimensional array access
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 8 Sep 2000
Last Modified: 19 Sep 2000
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