Re: RFC 283 (v1) C in array context should return a histogram

[Richard Proctor]

Simon,

> This has been on the Perl 5 to-do list for ages and ages. The idea is
> that when you're transliterating a bunch of things, you want to know
> how many of each of them matched in your original string.

While this may be a fun thing to do - why?  what is the application?

Richard