in reply to The Zeroeth Principle
... Default is 0, but we used to set it to 1 to make Perl behave more like awk (or FORTRAN) when subscripting and when evaluating the index and substr functions. ...
Basically, it was a (mis)feature that was caught and made safer, but left in for backwards compatability. I wouldn't expect to see it in Perl6.
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We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age.
Then there are Damian modules.... *sigh* ... that's not about being less-lazy -- that's about being on some really good drugs -- you know, there is no spoon. - flyingmoose
I shouldn't have to say this, but any code, unless otherwise stated, is untested
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