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On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 11:35:44PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: > bugid #1832 points out that there is an inconsistency between the docs and > the behaviour of splice, in that the array isn't autoextended if > the offset is off the end; eg > > perl -le 'splice(@x,10,1,'foo'); print 0+@x' > > prints 1 rather than 10. > > The bug dialogue contains proposals both for a doc patch or a code patch, > but no concensus was reached (or even attempted, it would appear) as to > which it should be. > > I would vote for fixing the docs. Wouldn't be that a rather useful feature ? Regards AdiThread Previous | Thread Next