John Porter wrote: > It all depends. :-) > > [...] > > Perl has to autoviv if it has to drill down.
good point. but since we don't have multidimensional array access right now (at least AFAIK), this seems to be a non-issue. I don't know if p6 will autovivify the way p5 does (and I hope not). IMHO, PerlArray.pmc should behave the way I suggested: if the index is out of bound, returns undef tout-court. I have the patch under my toes ;-) cheers, Aldo __END__ $_=q,just perl,,s, , another ,,s,$, hacker,,print;