RE: array slice question

[Peter Cornelius]

I don't think so.  I do (split)[-1] regularly and it works fine.  If you
left out the parens however it would think this was a pattern to match.  I
was told by someone on perlmonks that the failure of [3 .. -1] with split is
something that should be fixed in subsequent versions of Perl. 

> 
>  [1,6,8..-1]
> 
> in this case "-" is seen as a metacharacter inside the 
> character class and
> is not seen as -1
>