From: Bart Lateur Date: 2000-12-11T03:10:02+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:7013] Re: Why isn't Perl highly orthogonal? Terrence Brannon wrote: >One day my boss asked me: "how do you get the length of an array in >Perl?" >But of course what irked me is how unintuitive and irregular Perl is Didn't you even wonder why your boss insists on calling this "length"? I call it "number of elements", or "count". A string has a length. A string is not an array. -- Bart.