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Re: [ID 20000317.003] missing slice of reference

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JVromans
Date:
March 17, 2000 08:06
Subject:
Re: [ID 20000317.003] missing slice of reference
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m2em99twha.fsf@phoenix.squirrel.nl
"M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> >                                                        And I cannot
> > see why 'scalar(@x)->[2]' produces the 3rd element of array @x.
> 
> Where does it say anything about scalar context?

As far as I can tell, scalar(@x) is 4, and 4->[2] points to nothing
defined, most certainly not to $x[2].

-- Johan
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