Re^4: getting rid of special features

[LanX]

in reply to Re^3: getting rid of special features
in thread getting rid of costly special features

> It's nicely symmetric with how ranges of strings work:

yes and no!

  DB<115> $a="aa"; print --$a
-1

that much about orthogonality in Perl. :(

[moritz]

how is that not symmetric to how ranges of strings work?

[LanX]

I meant yes (ranges) and no (decrement)

The symmetry between integers and strings is broken.