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Postings from September 2000
Casey R. Tweten writes:
> Leave length() the way it is now and, if one so desires, they may
> override it on there own to use length for getting:
Not that helpful a suggestion for beginners. They don't know how to
override, or often even how to load a module. The point is not that
there's already a way to do it, but that the existing way doesn't make
sense.
Scalar context makes sense in:
if (@a) { ... }
But you have to know the innards of context to understand why you
do this to get the length of an array:
$a = @b;
All I'm doing is suggesting another way, one that makes more sense for
beginners:
$a = length @b;
I think we're going to have to see prototypes extended to cope with
functions like this, anyway. I'll mention this requirement in the
next version of the RFC.
Nat