On 2/6/07, Smylers <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
Jonathan Scott Duff writes:
> ... I can see the need for a pragma to help out the Pascal or Fortran
> programmers start all of their arrays at something other than 0.
Those sort of crutches in programming languages (let's help folk who
know some o
Jonathan Scott Duff writes:
> On 2/6/07, Smylers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 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,
Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
Smylers wrote in perl.perl6.language :
Hmmm, a pragma's a bit heavyweight for this; how about being able to set
this with a special global variable -- that sure sounds handy ...
Actually, in perl 5, $[ *is* a pragma... :)
A feature I have never felt the
Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
Smylers wrote in perl.perl6.language :
Hmmm, a pragma's a bit heavyweight for this; how about being able to set
this with a special global variable -- that sure sounds handy ...
Actually, in perl 5, $[ *is* a pragma... :)
A feature I have never felt the
Smylers wrote in perl.perl6.language :
> Hmmm, a pragma's a bit heavyweight for this; how about being able to set
> this with a special global variable -- that sure sounds handy ...
Actually, in perl 5, $[ *is* a pragma... :)
--
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On 2/6/07, Smylers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 feel
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
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
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
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 0 should be the
fi
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