Re: RFC 76 (v1) Builtin: reduce

[Jeremy Howard]

Array and placeholder indices both start at *zero*!
Array and placeholder indices both start at *zero*!
Array and placeholder indices both start at *zero*!
Array and placeholder indices both start at *zero*!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Damian Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jarkko Hietaniemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Larry Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jeremy
Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: RFC 76 (v1) Builtin: reduce


>    > Except that Perl 6 people will know all about numbered parameters, so
they
>    > will write:
>    >
>    >   @out = sort ^2 cmp ^1, @in;
>    >
>    > and it will work just as they expect!
>
> As long as they expect it to fail miserably! :-(
>
> Now, go home and write it out 100 times:
>
> "Array and placeholder indices both start at *zero*!"
>
> Damian
>
>