On Fri, 06 Dec 2002 14:16:43 +0000, Brad Hughes wrote: > In any case, the choice of default base index is less important for Perl than > for other languages given how seldom arrays in Perl are accessed by index as > opposed to manipulated by push, pop, for $x (@array) loops and such.
I slice a lot of lists, though, and expect the base index of a loop to have a certain resemblance to the base index of an array. -- c