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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
January 23, 2014 12:26
Subject:
Range idea
Message ID:
20140123132554.001c114e@pc09.procura.nl
Wanting to take all the elements from a list starting at position x to
the end is pretty hard when the list is dynamic, so $#list cannot be
used, nor can index -1
Why cannot we use open range operators in this case?
Both [n ..] and [n ...] are currently syntax errors
$ perl -wE'say for [qw( a b c d )]->[2 ..]'
syntax error at -e line 1, near "..]"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
$ perl -wE'say for [qw( a b c d )]->[2 ...]'
syntax error at -e line 1, near "...]"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
either of the above could be defined to return qw(c d)
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