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Jonathan Scott Duff  
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 More options Sep 20 2002, 11:48 pm
Newsgroups: perl.perl6.language
From: d...@cbi.tamucc.edu (Jonathan Scott Duff)
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 22:25:15 -0500
Local: Fri, Sep 20 2002 11:25 pm
Subject: Re: Regex query
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On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 02:17:42PM -0700, David Whipp wrote:
> Larry wrote:
> > :     $shouldbe3 = (1,2,3) + 0;

> > It's 3, though not for the reason a Perl 5 programmer would think.
> > (In Perl 6 it's the length of the anonymous array, not the
> > last value.)

> 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

Why is this one false?  I'd expect it to be true just as the others.

>   ()      == 0 # true?

Same here.

> . If the [] list-ref composers are to remain,
> there seems no good reason to add a redundant behaviour to
> parentheses. Or am I missing something?

I tend to agree with you here though.  We could both be missing
something :-)

-Scott
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Jonathan Scott Duff
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