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Postings from August 1999
[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to Rick Delaney
<rick.delaney@home.com>],
who wrote in article <37C7657C.31EBBD3@home.com>:
> > As a special rule, if a list slice would produce a list
> > consisting entirely of undefined values, the null list is
> > produced instead. This makes it easy to write loops that
> > terminate when a null list is returned:
> >
> > while ( ($home, $user) = (getpwent)[7,0]) {
> > printf "%-8s %s\n", $user, $home;
> > }
>
> I see this addition is still in there (you first showed it to me when I
> sent a bug report about this). Do we really want to set this behaviour
> in stone so it can never be changed?
If I remember the discussion on p5p correctly, this feature was added
per Tim's request. Later Tim agreed that this was not used as he
wanted, and there was a better alternative to this ugly hack.
I Cc to p5p to clarify things.
Ilya