...and then there is my take: There are so many types of "lists" in Perl that to say anything definitive about a "list" is usually a mistake.

Most agree that an array is a type of list but that a list need not necessarily be an array.

The rest of the arguments are a bit silly to me now. They consist of different people trying to precisely define what a "Perl list" is and then arguing because very listish things like ('a','b','c') don't meet some of these definitions.

For example, the Perl documentation talks about the "list of characters" between square brackets composing a character class.

See (tye)Re2: tr doesn't *really* use a list and follow-ups for more of my wacky ideas. (:

        - tye (but my friends call me "List")

In reply to (tye)Re: array element seperators by tye
in thread array element seperators by Anonymous Monk

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