Richard Hainsworth wrote:
> I dont think the specification regarding 'reverse' has ever changed.
Actually it has changed. If my memory serves me right, .flip is not
older than one or many one and a half years.
The story is rather simple: In Perl we usually have one operator per
operation. For exa
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 dependi
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:15, Smylers wrote:
>
> 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).
>
Perhaps
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:21:52AM +0200, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote:
: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:15, Smylers wrote:
:
: >
: > 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 a
