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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/