Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bfmny0!tneff
From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: (@array = length) considered harmful
Message-ID: <15230@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 5 Mar 90 15:22:42 GMT
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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I know we had a couple messages' worth of discussion on it before Larry
tossed it into Patch 9, but I really kind of wish he hadn't changed
@array in a scalar context to mean length(@array).  Scalar context is so
BROAD!  And I cannot figure out how to return a list as the value of a
function anymore.  Urrgh.

I still think length(@array) is more intuitive and less bug-prone.