Bart Lateur wrote:
> On 30 Sep 2000 20:13:55 -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
>
> >But setting $[ = 1 is the mathematically correct method for
> >array addressing and makes it easier for ordinary mortals to do
> >basic tasks with C<substr()>, array addressing and the like.
>
> I sure don't want the fact that a scripter decides to change $[, make
> used modules fail, because the module's author didn't anticipate that.
>
> Does this not imply that $[ should become lexically scoped?
Or maybe $[ should become a lexically scoped pragma
use arraybase '1';
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