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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: panic: A_LVAL
Message-ID: <9858@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 8 Oct 90 16:32:28 GMT
References: <106865@convex.convex.com>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <106865@convex.convex.com> tchrist@convex.Com (Tom Christiansen) writes:
: 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.

I just fixed that one last week.  When "foreach" iterates over an array,
it now creates any missing values so that they can be assigned to.

Larry