On 5/29/07, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The main rationale for going with null return is that the biggest use of
replication has generally been something like:
say $foo, ' ' x (20 - $foo.width), $bar
and it would be counterproductive to degrade to "negative" spaces in
such a case. (This is also the rationale for not returning failure
on negative counts.)
OK. That makes sense. Thanks.
And generally, I think
@list xx -1
is less readable than
@list.reverse
so I don't feel inclined to include it as another Way To Do It.
I wholeheartedly agree on the readability issue. Nor was I setting
out to add a new Way To Do anything; it's just that my automatic
expectation for what would happen (which I'm not trying to defend as
particularly logical) was being violated, and P6 hasn't done that too
often. So I prodded to see what was going on in @larry.brain. Your
explanation is all I needed to shush the little grumbles in my head.
Thanks again!
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Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
