Re: exists $foo[7] and delete $foo[7]

[Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>]

Tom Christiansen writes:
: >> 
: >Nothing. There's nothing there, not even an undef() or an empty string.
: >That's why the array gets shorter if you delete its last value.
: 
: You have to put *something* there!  There's a slot.  If there's not
: something there, then the slot is gone.  The picture abhors a vacuum.
: Is it undef?  Is it ""? Is it 0?  Is it false?  It it XXXXX?  
: Is it Jehosaphat? :-)

"There it was, gone completely."  --Tim Rue

Larry

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Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com>

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