Re^4: getting rid of special features

> It's nicely symmetric with how ranges of strings work:

yes and no!

  DB<115> $a="aa"; print --$a
-1
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that much about orthogonality in Perl. :(

Cheers Rolf

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Re^5: getting rid of special features by moritz (Cardinal) on Feb 17, 2013 at 20:36 UTC
how is that not symmetric to how ranges of strings work? Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed	[reply]
Re^6: getting rid of special features by LanX (Saint) on Feb 17, 2013 at 20:55 UTC
I meant yes (ranges) and no (decrement) The symmetry between integers and strings is broken. Cheers Rolf	[reply]

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