Arms, Mike wrote:
Well, I could see a possibility here, but this is total
speculation as I do not know the underlying implentation
of the sysseek function.
Think of the case of function prototypes:
sub f (\@) { print 'foo'; }
my @a = qw(b c d e f z);
f( @a[-2,-3,-1] );
I get this error:
T
ture as an array slice
could be a single parameter (rather than three).
--
Mike Arms
> -Original Message-
> From: Sisyphus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 4:27 PM
> Cc: Win32 perl
> Subject: Re: seek parameters
>
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> Glenn L
Glenn Linderman wrote:
Here's a strangeness:
my $res = sysseek( @stk[ -2, -3, -1 ] );
fails to compile, but
my $res = sysseek( $stk[ -2 ], $stk[ -3 ], $stk[ -1 ] );
compiles fine. As far as I can tell, they have the same effect.
And curiously, the error from the first is about the nu
Here's a strangeness:
my $res = sysseek( @stk[ -2, -3, -1 ] );
fails to compile, but
my $res = sysseek( $stk[ -2 ], $stk[ -3 ], $stk[ -1 ] );
compiles fine. As far as I can tell, they have the same effect.
And curiously, the error from the first is about the number of parameters.
Ca
