Front page | perl.perl5.porters |
Postings from May 2008
On Tue May 23 02:34:11 2006, theodore@websitters.com wrote: > Perlfunc gives these as examples of reverse: > > print reverse <>; # line tac, last line > first > undef $/; # for efficiency of <> > print scalar reverse <>; # character tac, last line > tsrif > > This is very clear for using reverse in list context, > but not so clear for reversing the characters in the > list, and very unclear regarding reversing a string. > I've read this many times, but didn't realize that you > could reverse a string until someone told me today. Is > there any way you can add a line to make this more > clear? Perhaps something like: > > print scalar reverse $_; > > Thank you for your attention to this matter. > -Ted Patch that changes the examples in perlfunc/reverse attached.Thread Next