What do you consider a "negative array"? Is it:

  1. A data structure where the index is arbitrary but the values are always the range 0 to (number of items-1)?
  2. A data structure where the values are arbitrary but the index is always in the range 0 down to -(number of items-1)?
  3. A normal array?

If you're wondering, you can access Perl arrays with positive and negative values for the index, where positive values count from the front and negative values count from the end of the array.

In reply to Re^6: Can call array but not index of an array in subroutine?! by Corion
in thread Can call array but not index of an array in subroutine?! by fraizerangus

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