A Perl Chicken-and-egg problem

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 02:58:33PM -0400, Richard Dice wrote:
> print $#{@$a} . "\n";
> print $#{@{$a->[$#{@$a}]}} . "\n";
> print $a->[ $#{@$a} ][ $#{@{$a->[ $#{@$a} ]}} ] . "\n";

And that kind of syntax is why I hate perl more and more as I use it.
Many languages grow on you with use.  perl does the opposite since the
more you learn the more you realize what an ugly inconsistent disaster
of a language it is.  Yuck!

-- 
Len Sorensen
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