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

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

>> I like the potential, but the well- (and strictly-) defined linear
>> nature of arrays will lead people to believe things like:
>> 
>>        $a[100] = '0-99 do not yet exist';
>>        # later in their code...
>>        exists $a[23] or die "Why not? \$a[100] exists!";

>Funny, I am always wondering why perl suddenly claims there are 101
>elements when I'm fairly sure I've only set 1.

Funny, I don't recall Perl ever saying that.

--tom

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