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

["Mark Mielke" <markm@nortelnetworks.com>]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 11:54:35AM -0800, "Gurusamy Sarathy" wrote:
> 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.

Which is really true for almost anything perl. No point in looking back now.

mark

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Follow-Ups from:

Nick Ing-Simmons <nick@ing-simmons.net>

References to:

Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com>
Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com>

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