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

[Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com>]

>>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com>
>>>>>> wrote the following on Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:25:26 -0700

>  >> Funny, I am always wondering why perl suddenly claims there are
>  >> 101 elements when I'm fairly sure I've only set 1.

>  Tom> Funny, I don't recall Perl ever saying that.

>perl -e '$a[100] = "something"; print scalar(@a)'
>101

That's not what it's saying.  It's saying that the 101st
item in the array has been assigned to.  It's not saying
there are 101 defined things in the array.  

--tom

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