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Re: Regex query
From:
Tanton Gibbs
Date:
September 20, 2002 16:45
Subject:
Re: Regex query
Message ID:
015e01c260ff$88e17880$f8ffa8c0@brooklyn
> > This kind of clever magic always makes me nervous:
> > it introduces subtle bug potentials.
> >
> > (7,8,9) == 3 # true
> > (7,8) == 2 # true
> > (7) == 1 # false
> > () == 0 # true?
>
> I believe the last two cases should be:
>
> (7,) == 1
> (,) == 0
>
> Because its the perl6 comma that creates the list, not the parenthesis.
>
> ~ John Williams
If this is the case, then can you also have:
(,7)
What is its length?
Tanton