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><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.
Please assure us that you have no intention of breaking existing code by
withdrawing a feature that's been in there for many years. Imagine the
ramifications. They'd take you out and shoot you.
--tom