At 9:04 PM +0100 8/1/02, Graham Barr wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 03:42:19PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>> At 5:28 PM +0200 8/1/02, Aldo Calpini wrote:
>> >fetching an element out of bound changes the
>> >length of the array. but should this really happen?
>> >why does perlarray.pmc act like this:
>>
>> Because that's the way Perl's arrays work. Joys of autovivification.
>
>Only if the element fetched is being used in an lvalue context.
>
>Just reading an array element will result in undef and no change to the array
>internals
Good point. Read shouldn't extend, write should.
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