Sherm Pendley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Paddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Having more than one index start point would be a maintenance > > nightmare best avoided. > > Quite right. > > > (It can be done in Perl). > > When was the last time you used Perl? It was allowed in Perl 4 and earlier, > because many Perl users were moving from Awk, which uses an array base of 1. > Even then, having multiple index start points within a single program wasn't > the idea; the idea was to allow programs originally written in Awk to be > ported to Perl with minimal updating. > > It was deprecated as of 5.0 though - which was released in '94. It still > works, for the sake of backwards compatibility, but its use in new code is > highly discouraged.
I seem to remember from "Programming Perl" that Larry Wall said it was a serious mistake to add this feature to perl. If it is a feature too far for perl then it is *definitely* a feature too far for python ;-) -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
