On Jul 10, bob ackerman said: >> All lists get auto-cast into a scalar, in scalar context. An array slice >> is merely a list of array elements. >> >> $x = @y[2]; >> >> is the same as >> >> $x = ($y[2]); > >except you will get warnings on these lines.
Perl warns about @x[$i] because it was probably MEANT to be $x[$i]. >> $x = @y[1,3,5]; > >no warning on this. assumes you mean to only assign the last element. hmmm. Perl doesn't warn about @x[$i,$j] because it was probably MEANT to be @x[$i,$j]. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
