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

[Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com>]

I erroneously wrote:

>>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.


That's misattributed.  Mark has those crappy headers that trick my mailer
into lying.

--tom

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