Re: RFC 212 (v1) Make length(@array) work

[Tom Christiansen]

>What I said was: making length(@array) "work" would be catering to
>novice people *coming from C*. We shouldn't. Not that much. In Perl, a
>string is not an array.

I'm pretty sure it's not just the people coming from C who expect this.

This all points to the bug^H^H^Hdubious feature which is the sub($)
context template as applied to named arrays and hashes.  Requiring
an explicit conversion would help a lot.  Or so it seems.

--tom