HaloO, Larry Wall wrote: > As mentioned on irc, it should do the same thing as "foo" => (). > The question is whether () in item context promotes to []. I don't > think it ought to, since () is really the only way we have of writing > NIL in Perl 6, and [] isn't really NIL. And I think it would be odd > to have *two* discontinuities: > > item (1,2) # [1,2] > item (1) # (1) > item () # []??? > > One discontinuity is bad enough: > > item (1,2) # [1,2] > item (1) # (1) > item () # ()
Sorry, what am I missing that I see no problem with List always itemizing to an Array? Regards, TSa. -- "The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity" -- C.A.R. Hoare "Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it." -- A.J. Perlis 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ... = -1/12 -- Srinivasa Ramanujan
