Re: Negative array subscripts

2007-02-06 Thread Smylers
Blair Sutton writes: > David Green wrote: > > > In some ways, I like not having a [0] index at all: programmers may > > be used to counting from zero, but normal humans start with first, > > second, third, ... third last, second last,... > > My feelings are Perl 6 should stick to 0 being the ind

Re: Negative array subscripts

2007-02-06 Thread Blair Sutton
David Green wrote: On 2/5/07, David Green wrote: Then we wouldn't need * to count backwards, although it's still useful to allow us to count past the end of an array. There are all sorts of variations on this scheme, such as whether * is the last element or the one after that, etc., or whether

Re: Negative array subscripts

2007-02-06 Thread TSa
HaloO, David Green wrote: Also, this would solve a problem I've been wondering about with "funny" shapes being lexically scoped. [..] However, what if you pass the funny array along with a (funny) index? E.g. our @flavours (1..32); my $favourite = get_fave(@flavours); #returns index of s