At 03:45 PM 8/16/2002 -0400, Jerrad Pierce wrote: >I was wondering if perl would be handling negative array indices in the >same manner as perl 5? >That is to FETCHSIZE + index = real index, before attempting to fetch >the element. >It would be swell if the index was passed along as negative, and to then >have the guts do >this voodoo. This way, one could tie an array to Class which used two >arrays to emulate real >negative indices (as opposed to count from the back).
I think for tying to work this will have to be done just as you say. -Melvin
