On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:03:33 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>I'm pretty sure it's not just the people coming from C who expect this.
Uh-oh.
>This all points to the bug^H^H^Hdubious feature which is the sub($)
>context template as applied to named arrays and hashes. Requiring
>an explicit conversion would help a lot. Or so it seems.
I think you've nailed it on the head. I've tested it, and you can't use
a generic list for arguments:
print length(@a, 'this is a string');
-->
Too many arguments for length at test.pl line 2, near "'this is a
string')"
Execution of test.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
So length is already picky on what it accepts. You need to turn it into
print length(scalar(@a, 'this is a string'));
to get perl to accept it.
Let's just make length()-- and all other functions with ($) as
proptotype -- reject hashes and arrays. Those are currently probably the
only weird things, that it does accept.
--
Bart.
