On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:19:55 -0400 Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote: > * Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl> [2013-08-15T13:42:23] > > It still escapes me why @* was chosen instead of the much more > > logical [] : > > So: ->[] means "the array" > But ->[1,2,3] means "the slice" (a list) > And so ->[()] means "the slice of no elements (an empty list) At one time the idea was ->[*] as a sortof "whatever-star" idea borrowed from Perl6. What happened to that recently? -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leonerd@leonerd.org.uk ICQ# 4135350 | Registered Linux# 179460 http://www.leonerd.org.uk/Thread Previous | Thread Next