Comments on: Day 8 – Different Names of Different Things http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/different-names-of-different-things/ Something cool about Perl 6 every day Sun, 03 Feb 2013 05:15:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: GlitchMr http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/different-names-of-different-things/#comment-1817 Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:01:44 +0000 http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/?p=557#comment-1817 The problem is that everything is a list in Perl 6. For example in example below, `’advent-calendar’` is one element list (containing itself).

> reverse 'advent-calendar'
advent-calendar

Even accessing list elements gives a list, so Perl 6 cannot overload `[]` syntax to access string characters.

> 'advent-calendar'[0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0]
advent-calendar
]]> By: Zach Bornheimer http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/different-names-of-different-things/#comment-1570 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:09:37 +0000 http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/?p=557#comment-1570 If perl6 is trying to get rid of historical inconsistencies, why not overload reverse so it works on all three types instead of forcing the data to go into the expected data type? I would think that it might be more efficient to have reverse do the job of all three of those operators, but have it depend on the context. Why is this?

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