On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 05:52:04PM -0700, Austin Hastings wrote: > > --- Jonadab the Unsightly One <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am I now thinking clearly? > > > I don't think so. > > If you've created two separate arrays that happen to start with related > values, then the changes to the first won't affect the second. > > If splice overwrites the values instead of dropping and then replacing > them, it's going to produce some strange behavior.
What kind of strange behavior? Can you give an example? > I think that for example: > > my @a is Array of int; > my $r_slice is Array of int; > > # ... as before ... > > should behave as expected, and "expected" in this case means > copy-on-assign. Could you elaborate on this? >OTOH, if you said C<$r_slice := @a ...> then you'd be > binding, not copying, and the one-change-affects-both behavior is in > effect. > > =Austin You also wouldn't be using a slice, you'd be using a reference to the array. Or was the ellipsis supposed to indicate the slice indices? --Dks
