Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1

[Richard Proctor]

On Fri 06 Apr, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> This is, I presume, in addition to any sort of inherent DWIMmery? I don't 
> see any reason that:
> 
>     @foo[1,2] = <STDIN>;
> 
> shouldn't read just two lines from that filehandle, for example, nor why
> 

Fair enough

>     @bar = @foo * 12;
> 
> shouldn't assign to @bar all the elements of @foo multiplied by 12. (Though
> others might, of course)

Reasonable, but what should 

      @bar = @foo x 2;
      
do?  Repeat @foo twice or repeat each element twice?  (its current behaviour
is less than useless, other than for JAPHs)

Richard

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