On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:34:12 -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> What tipped me over the edge, however, is that I want ^$x back for a unary
> operator that is short for 0..^$x, that is, the range from 0 to $x - 1. I
> kept wanting such an operator in revising S09. It also makes it easy to
> write
>
> for ^5 { say } # 0, 1, 2, 3, 4
It seems strange to have a shortcut for 0..$n-1 but no shortcut for 0..$n.
I'm also puzzled that you feel the need to write 0..$n-1 so often; there
are so many alternatives to fenceposting in P5 that I almost never write
an expression like that, so why is it cropping up that much in P6?
--
Peter Scott
