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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: I'm lazy, can this be done somehow???
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.174355.8537@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 30 Jan 91 17:43:55 GMT
References: <1991Jan26.012646.4937@sdd.hp.com> <1991Jan26.154656.4794@NCoast.ORG> <11210@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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As quoted from <11210@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> by lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall):
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| In article <1991Jan26.154656.4794@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
| : Although I do admit that I've thought $[ should work like this.
| 
| $[ only changes the offset to the first element.  It doesn't affect the
| contents of the array at all.
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I don't want it to change the contents, just to change the "name" of the first
element.  Consider "$[ = -400":  its meaning would be "the first element of
an array should be called `-400'".  The implementation would be that $[ would
be subtracted from the index provided in the program to get the *real* index.

Of course, this would be more useful as a per-array attribute instead of a
global.

++Brandon
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