From: Thelma Lubkin <thelma@...2.csd.uwm.edu>
Date: 2000-12-10T03:40:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6981] Re: Why isn't Perl highly orthogonal?

In comp.lang.perl.misc Dave Cross <dave@dave.org.uk> wrote:
: The length of a string and the number of elemetns in an array really
: aren't the same thing at all, so it makes sense to me that I find them
: in different ways. The same goes for substrings and array slices.

: Thinking of these concepts as similar seems to meto be a hangover from
: C, where strings are arrays of characters, but surely we've moved on
: since then.

: Maybe your boss is a C programmer?

          if aray[8] can hold 8 5-character strings (ie aray's
          elements are char*5), a C programmer would say it's a length
          8 array, not a length 40 array.

          Why the gratuitous insult to C programmers?

                           --thelma
                    who struggles along in both languages.
: Dave...