Re: RFC 213 (v1) rindex and index should return undef on failure

[Nathan Torkington]

Chaim Frenkel writes:
> I would like to have an undef returned.

Ah, I see.  You want subroutines to return undef if they're given it
for any of their arguments.  That'd break the lazy programmer practice
of passing undef expecting it to become "" or 0.  They don't have
warnings on, of course.

Nat