Re: exists $foo[7] and delete $foo[7]

[Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com>]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:36:51 MST, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>>>Will delete allow for
>>>
>>>    delete $a[100];
>>>    print scalar @a;    # prints 0 ???
>
>>Yes, that's what it does.
>
>So, delete on an array doesn't actually do the same thing as
>pop/splice/shift would.  I don't think that this won't confuse
>people.  Do you not not think not either? :-)

I think it would confuse people who are willingly/easily confused,
yes.


Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com

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