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

[Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>]

Mark Mielke writes:
 > But wait... you can ALREADY do things with sparse arrays...
 > 
 >     $a[500] = 1;
 > 
 > Does NOT allocate 501 SV's. It allocates exactly one. The internal array
 > underneath may actually be "501 * sizeof(void *)" bytes big... but who
 > cares? Did the user worry about it before?

Try

	$a[500_000_000] = 1;

and then talk again about Perl already having sparse arrays and
the internal array underneath not being important.

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