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Postings from April 2003
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 01:50:21AM +0300, Enache Adrian wrote: > 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 ? Well, yes it would, but it's likely to break existing code. -- "There's something wrong with our bloody ships today, Chatfield." Admiral Beatty at the Battle of Jutland, 31st May 1916.Thread Previous