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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Shuffling, and more grep nut
Message-ID: <6992@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 6 Feb 90 00:48:36 GMT
References: <1990Jan30.193431.28383@iwarp.intel.com>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1990Jan30.193431.28383@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
: grep(s/foo/bar/, @TMP = @sacred);
: 
: But when I just tried it, it still affected @sacred!  Why?

Bug in array assignment.  It was leaving the wrong set of pointers
on the stack.  Fixed.

Larry