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Re: the "@" indicates plural hence "s" is redundant

by hsmyers (Canon)
on Oct 30, 2002 at 19:36 UTC ( [id://209205]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to the "@" indicates plural hence "s" is redundant

It occurs to me that in some ideal sense, it might be nice to have the language figure out the context. For instance, if $user[5] is supposed to mean 'user' number 5, shouldn't that imply that the array name then be @users? I make no claims as to the rationality of this, let alone what it would take to implement same--just a momentary notion (possibly a stroke pre-cursor!)

--hsm

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