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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: perl man page (bugs and enhancements)
Message-ID: <9142@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 14 Aug 90 23:12:06 GMT
References: <1990Aug13.194249.6156@amd.com> <9131@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <1990Aug14.193300.7083@amd.com>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1990Aug14.193300.7083@amd.com> dwork@brahms.amd.com (Jeff Dwork) writes:
: In article <9131@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
: >In article <1990Aug13.194249.6156@amd.com> dwork@brahms.amd.com (Jeff Dwork) writes:
: >: Two man page bugs:
: >: 
: >: >     splice(ARRAY,OFFSET)
: >: >
: >: >                  push(@a,$x,$y)                splice(@a,$#x+1,0,$x,$y)
: >: 
: >: Shouldn't that be `$#a'?
: >
: >No.  That would insert $x and $y before the last element.
: >
: 
: What I meant was `$#a+1' as opposed to `$#x+1'.  It seems to me that `$#x'
: refers to the last index of array @x, which has nothing to do with scalar $x.
: Or am I still confused?

No, you're absolutely right.

Larry