perlmeditation LanX Hi <P><P> I'm meditating if Perl should introduce an explicit keyword <c>size</c> (or <c>count</c> ¹) always return the number of elements of lists and arrays... ([doc://length] is already taken and [doc://scalar] is to overloaden)<P><P> so <c> size @a := scalar @a; </c><P><P> and<P><P> <c> size (a..c) := scalar @{[a..c]} </c><P><P> I know <i>"explicit is better than implicit"</i> is more a Python dogma, but since even [BrowserUK|popes] still fall into the [id://1007687|scalar trap] we should maybe consider <i>"another way to do it"</i> (best Perl tradition =).<P><P> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-708738"> <p>Cheers Rolf </div></div><P> PS: I tried to provide an example implementation of size, something like<P> <c>sub size([@$];@) { ... }</c> <P> but was to lazy to fiddle around with prototypes.<P> Anyway IMHO a reliable implementation will need more parsing magic than prototypes can bring to avoid disambiguation.<P> ¹) or [id://1007798|whatever]