On Wednesday 28 May 2008 23:20:15 Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> In particular, I think that the following sequence should
> result in a 0-length array:
>
> my @array;
> @array[8] = 'eight'; # array has elements 0..8
> @array.delete(8); # now it's empty again
> say [EMAIL PROTECTED]; # "0\n"
>
> Pugs (evalbot) disagrees with me on this:
>
> 06:16 <pmichaud> pugs: my @array; @array[8]='eight'; @array.delete(8);
> say [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 06:16 <exp_evalbot> OUTPUT[8]
>
> Perl 5 agrees with my interpretation, though:
>
> $ cat x
> my @array;
> $array[8] = 'eight';
> delete $array[8];
> print [EMAIL PROTECTED], "\n";
> $ perl x
> 0
> $
>
> Comments?
S29 suggests that this should be the case:
Deleted elements at the end of an Array shorten the length of the Array,
unless doing so would violate an is shape() definition.
http://perlcabal.org/syn/S29.html#Array
-- c
