Re (tilly) 2 (expectations): Apparent Inconsistencies in Perl Function Naming

Nat's suggestion fails to meet my expectations. Mine would be that length should work something like this:

sub length {
  if (1 == @_) {
    return CORE::length(shift);
  }
  else {
    return map {CORE::length($_)} @_;
  }
}
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IOW return a list of lengths instead of the number of things in the array. (Which I can easily get anyways.)

Perl can't match both my expectations and princepawn's...

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Re: Re (tilly) 2 (expectations): Apparent Inconsistencies in Perl Function Naming by swiftone (Curate) on Nov 28, 2000 at 02:31 UTC
IOW return a list of lengths instead of the number of things in the array. (Which I can easily get anyways.) Really then, shouldn't length return a list or a scalar depending on the context in which it was called? :) Note to all: If you don't see the humor in this, reread the thread	[reply]
Re (tilly) 4 (expectations): Apparent Inconsistencies in Perl Function Naming by tilly (Archbishop) on Nov 28, 2000 at 03:10 UTC
Way ahead of you, length should return a list or a scalar depending on the context in which it was called. A conclusion I came to in Re (tilly) 3: Apparent Inconsistencies in Perl Function Naming...	[reply]