[Classiccity-pm] perl curiosity..

[Shawn Boyette]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 10:29:29AM -0400, Darrell Golliher wrote:
> 
>   So I'm reading someone elses code and come acrosse something like
>   this..
> 
>     @things = qw(one two three);
>     print $things[-1];

Yar, it's Standard Perl Idiom (it's in the Llama, even)

>   Indexing it with -1 looks ugly to me.

Heh. I always thought it made a lot of sense :)

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Shawn Boyette
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