Re: test '-v' - associative vs. normal array discrepancy - a bug ?

[Greg Wooledge]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 09:52:39PM +0100, Piotr Grzybowski wrote:
>  now I wonder, maybe this:
> 
> $#a
> 
> should return number of elements in array, if a is an array, and
> strlen($a) for scalars?

That would break existing scripts.  $#a already means "argc followed by
the letter a".

If you meant ${#a}, that would *still* break existing scripts, because
${#a} when a is an array currently means "the length of a[0]".