> [RT_System - Mon Sep 20 02:46:44 1999]: > > >Ah, I think I see what you mean now. You want these to behave differently: > > > > DB<1> print $count = @array = ((undef) x 3)[0,1,2] > >0 > > DB<2> print $count = @array = ()[0,1,2] > >0 > > > >You'd have the first version start returning three, but leave the second > >version alone. The potential for breakage here is certainly reduced > >compared to what I misunderstood the original request to be, since there > >are fewer cases that would change. And it's quite possible that it's > >the latter case that people rely upon more than it is the former one. > >Whether it's exclusively the latter case that matters, I wonder. But you > >can't know what color the yolk is until you break the egg. > > Omlette makers can sometimes tell without breaking anything. :-)
And they do behave differently. 0 ~/tmp$ perl -le 'print $count = @array = ((undef) x 3)[0,1,2]' 3 0 ~/tmp$ perl -le 'print $count = @array = ()[0,1,2]' 0 So I guess whatever this was about its been resolved.
