From: logan@... (Logan Shaw)
Date: 2000-12-11T04:10:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7016] Re: Why isn't Perl highly orthogonal?

In article <q8h73t0mujv47cjdelpvo789asfve7cjb4@4ax.com>,
Bart Lateur  <bart.lateur@skynet.be> wrote:
>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.

No, but an array is a string.  A Perl array may not be the same thing
as a Perl scalar, but that doesn't matter.  (Especially since a Perl
scalar isn't really a scalar in the first place.  But then again, an
integer in most languages is a bit vector, so they aren't scalars
either...)

  - Logan