Re: Negative array subscripts

2007-02-07 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On 2/6/07, Smylers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blair Sutton writes: David Green wrote: In some ways, I like not having a [0] index at all: programmers may be used to counting from zero, but normal humans start with first, second, third, ... third last, second last,... My feelings are

Re: Negative array subscripts

2007-02-07 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Smylers wrote in perl.perl6.language : Hmmm, a pragma's a bit heavyweight for this; how about being able to set this with a special global variable -- that sure sounds handy ... Actually, in perl 5, $[ *is* a pragma... :) -- Grepping the source is good for the soul. -- the perldebguts manpage

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r13573 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-02-07 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Wed Feb 7 11:29:13 2007 New Revision: 13573 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Clarified one-pass parsing of heredocs, and a restriction based on that. Changed list() comprehension to each() which came available and reads better. Removed misleading fossil about