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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: I'm lazy, can this be done somehow???
Message-ID: <11249@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 31 Jan 91 18:03:27 GMT
References: <1991Jan26.012646.4937@sdd.hp.com> <1180011@hpcc01.HP.COM> <1991Jan30.235116.17942@NCoast.ORG>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1991Jan30.235116.17942@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
: 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.

Uh, it never stopped being restricted to 0 and 1 because it never started.
It was always that way.

Larry