Luke Palmer wrote: > On 21 Sep 2002, Smylers wrote: > > > But because C<$num> _might_ be used as an array ref, the data has to > > be kept around, which is wasteful. > > The programmer should know whether it would or wouldn't,
Oh, I wasn't doubting that. I was just concerned that if the 'typical' way of determining the size of an array remains as it is in Perl 5 then a programmer could unwittingly be keeping superfluous data around. > so he could put + or not. Fair enough. It would probably be good style always to include the C<+> when only the size is required; just doing this when otherwise would leave an array in memory would be too subtle. Smylers
