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

["Mark Mielke" <markm@nortelnetworks.com>]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 07:56:20PM +0000, "Matt Sergeant" wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Mark Mielke wrote:
> > Ever considered that your little diagrams before were _WRONG_? There are
> > no undef()'s in @array[3..49]... they just act like undef() when they are
> > needed.
> So exists() on an array is like testing for schrodinger's cat. :-)

Quantum mechanics doesn't require that such a test is impossible... it
just skips over the actual test and builds a statistical model instead
under the assumption that currently we can't... :-)

Omniscience is a wonderful thing. A wonderful gift to give the programmer...

mark

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References to:

Ted Ashton <ashted@southern.edu>
"Mark Mielke" <markm@nortelnetworks.com>
Matt Sergeant <matt@sergeant.org>

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