In article <t37fp0f48i1pfc / news.supernews.com>, John Roth wrote:
>i.e. @String. C choses the later mapping, and thus loses the
>ability to manipulate strings as first class entities. Perl lost the
>ability to resolve the ambiguity when Larry decided to make
>$X and @X different variables. In the case of strings, they
>clearly should be the same variable, with $X treating the
>string as an entity, and @X treating it as an array of characters.
>That would get rid of some of the string processing functions.

Well, you _can_ have it that way, if you want.

  http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/temp/CharArray.pm

Any comments?  Should I try submitting it to the CPAN?

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