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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: $# question
Message-ID: <DVkBT1w163w@cybrspc>
Date: 28 Nov 90 00:07:36 GMT
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Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN
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tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:

> I really do wish you wouldn't do things like this, though:
> 
> |        @aa = split(/\\/,@foo[$x]);
> 
> This kind of thing makes me nervous.

(ducking for cover....)

Actually, I had grabbed that snippet, and _then_ fixed the references to
scalars. (I did _so_ listen to you last time, Tom! :-) Thanks for
keeping me honest!

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