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From:
Aaron Sherman
Date:
May 11, 2005 15:25
Subject:
Re: (1,(2,3),4)[2]
Message ID:
1115850278.27930.40.camel@pps
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 17:48, Matt Fowles wrote:
> On 5/11/05, Luke Palmer <lrpalmer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/11/05, Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org> wrote:
> > > In a somewhat related topic:
> > >
> > > pugs> (1,(2,3),4)[2]
> > > 4
> > >
> > > Because the invocant to .[] assumes a Singular context.
> >
> > Right, but the *inside* of the invocant is still a list, so it's in
> > list context. I think that line should return 3.
>
> I am confused as to why exactly this is the case. Are you saying that
> nested lists like this flatten? That would certainly catch me off
> guard. Would you mind explaining that to me a little more?
I'm confused as well. How does that play with Larry's comment:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/perl.perl6.language/browse_frm/thread/54a1135c012b97bf/d17b4bc5ae7db058?q=list+comma&rnum=5&hl=en#d17b4bc5ae7db058
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Aaron Sherman <ajs@ajs.com>
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