On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 01:11:45PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 11:45:12AM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > : > : We're discussing the proper semantics of (1)[0] on #perl6. Here's > : where we're at so far: > : > : 1. specialise ()[] to parse as (,)[] > : 2. scalars are singleton lists, so ()[] naturally > : 3. make (1)[0] die horribly. > : > I think it has to be #1. We can't have (@foo)[0] working at two different > indirection levels depending on whether @foo == 1.
Hm? Under #2, no matter whether @foo is (1) or (1,2), the construct (@foo)[0] would always means @foo.[0]. Not sure how the length of @foo matters here. Thanks, /Autrijus/
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