Well you can't even assign a scalar to an @array to preallocate size, the way you can assign to $#array. @array = 8 always creates an array with a single element, namely 8. So I am pretty sure you're screwed trying to make perl do what you want. Maybe you couldjust *read* the scalar value via $#array too, with the appropriate modification to FETCHSIZE?
Did you check out Tie::VecArray or Bit::Vector::Minimal ? T::VA is pretty close to what you're trying to do, maybe you can use it instead. -- Jeremy On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 17:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to create a tied array to simplify > using bit vectors. ... > why is it that during FETCHSIZE > I can use @arr, like I do in the print statement. > But when I want to invoke STORESIZE, I have to > use $#arr instead of @arr=8; ??? > > shouldn't @arr be scalar context unless it > is fetching or storing a list? if I wanted to > store a list into @arr, I would have said > @arr = ( 10 ); _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
