On 2/6/07, Smylers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jonathan Scott Duff writes:
... I can see the need for a pragma to help out the Pascal or Fortran
programmers start all of their arrays at something other than 0.
Those sort of crutches in programming languages (let's help folk who
know some
Jonathan Scott Duff writes:
On 2/6/07, Smylers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Blair Sutton writes:
David Green wrote:
In some ways, I like not having a [0] index at all: programmers
may be used to counting from zero, but normal humans start with
first, second, third, ... third
Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
Smylers wrote in perl.perl6.language :
Hmmm, a pragma's a bit heavyweight for this; how about being able to set
this with a special global variable -- that sure sounds handy ...
Actually, in perl 5, $[ *is* a pragma... :)
A feature I have never felt
Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
Smylers wrote in perl.perl6.language :
Hmmm, a pragma's a bit heavyweight for this; how about being able to set
this with a special global variable -- that sure sounds handy ...
Actually, in perl 5, $[ *is* a pragma... :)
A feature I have never felt the
On 2/6/07, Smylers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Blair Sutton writes:
David Green wrote:
In some ways, I like not having a [0] index at all: programmers may
be used to counting from zero, but normal humans start with first,
second, third, ... third last, second last,...
My feelings are
Smylers wrote in perl.perl6.language :
Hmmm, a pragma's a bit heavyweight for this; how about being able to set
this with a special global variable -- that sure sounds handy ...
Actually, in perl 5, $[ *is* a pragma... :)
--
Grepping the source is good for the soul. -- the perldebguts manpage
HaloO,
David Green wrote:
Also, this would solve a problem I've been wondering about with funny
shapes being lexically scoped. [..]
However, what if you pass the funny array along with a (funny) index?
E.g. our @flavours (1..32);
my $favourite = get_fave(@flavours); #returns index of
David Green wrote:
On 2/5/07, David Green wrote:
Then we wouldn't need * to count backwards, although it's still
useful to allow us to count past the end of an array. There are all
sorts of variations on this scheme, such as whether * is the last
element or the one after that, etc., or
Blair Sutton writes:
David Green wrote:
In some ways, I like not having a [0] index at all: programmers may
be used to counting from zero, but normal humans start with first,
second, third, ... third last, second last,...
My feelings are Perl 6 should stick to 0 being the index of the
On 2/5/07, David Green wrote:
Then we wouldn't need * to count backwards, although it's still
useful to allow us to count past the end of an array. There are all
sorts of variations on this scheme, such as whether * is the last
element or the one after that, etc., or whether 0 should be the
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