Hello! I have just discovered that you can use the range operator to print letters in alphabetical order(is it unicode order?). However, I have noticed something unusual about the behaviour of the range operator with regard to "negative" characters. For example: 
my @array = 'a' .. -'a';
print @array;

OUTPUT:

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af 
+ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc 
+bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz.
+..

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And this pattern continues for each letter c, then a-z, etc. What is happening?

In reply to Using "negative" characters with the range operator. by Bowlslaw

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