On 21 January 2002 18:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote
[...]
> It should print `3' or `5', depending on one's "inner join" or
> "outer join" preference.
> 
> IMO, the most Perlesque approach would be the "outer join" style -
> missing elements will be filled in by Perl, with an appropriate
> value, typically undef (which would become 0 in numerical context).
> 

Indeed... remembering of course that Perl6 will have default values for
arrays (e.g. lazy arrays: @a=1..Inf; which isn't actually ever fully
evaluated).

Richard Cox 
Senior Software Developer 
Dell Technology Online 
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