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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: <1991Jan30.235116.17942@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 30 Jan 91 23:51:16 GMT
References: <1991Jan26.012646.4937@sdd.hp.com> <1180011@hpcc01.HP.COM>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Followup-To: comp.lang.perl
Organization: North Coast Public Access Un*x (ncoast)
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As quoted from <1180011@hpcc01.HP.COM> by weisberg@hpcc01.HP.COM (Len Weisberg):
+---------------
| Setting $[ does not set a pointer into the array.
| Rather, it changes the "names" (loosely speaking) by which you refer to
| elements of the array.
| 
|   DB<4> $[=4;
+---------------

When did the values stop being restricted to 0 and 1?  *This* is exactly what
I was asking for, myself.

++Brandon
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