On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 02:17:42PM -0700, David Whipp wrote: > Larry wrote: > > : $shouldbe3 = (1,2,3) + 0; > > > > It's 3, though not for the reason a Perl 5 programmer would think. > > (In Perl 6 it's the length of the anonymous array, not the > > last value.) > > This kind of clever magic always makes me nervous: > it introduces subtle bug potentials. > > (7,8,9) == 3 # true > (7,8) == 2 # true > (7) == 1 # false
Why is this one false? I'd expect it to be true just as the others. > () == 0 # true? Same here. > . If the [] list-ref composers are to remain, > there seems no good reason to add a redundant behaviour to > parentheses. Or am I missing something? I tend to agree with you here though. We could both be missing something :-) -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
