Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!tchrist
From: tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: panic: A_LVAL
Message-ID: <106865@convex.convex.com>
Date: 4 Oct 90 19:11:52 GMT
Sender: news@convex.com
Reply-To: tchrist@convex.Com (Tom Christiansen)
Organization: Convex Computer Corp, Richardson, TX
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The following two-liner triggers a "panic: A_LVAL" abort out of perl
at patchlevel 18:

    for (1..10) { $a[$_] = 1;  } 
    for (@a)    { $_     = !$_; }

If the subscripts are changed to (0..10), it's just fine.

--tom
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