On Aug 9, 8:29 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lalli) wrote:
> On Aug 8, 11:05 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Krahn) wrote:
>
> > > Subject: slices
>
> > Your examples are not using slices.  A slice implies a list (more than one) 
> > of
> > indexes
>
> No "more than one" required.  A 1 element list is a list.

Indeed, a 0-element list is also a list:

$ perl -wle'my @bar = qw/alpha beta gamma/;  @bar[()] = (1, 2, 3);
print for @bar;'
alpha
beta
gamma

Paul Lalli


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