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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: estoteric weird assoc-array slice bug
Message-ID: <7001@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 6 Feb 90 20:18:46 GMT
References: <1990Feb5.180859.6270@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 <1990Feb5.180859.6270@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
: Okay, I've done it this time.  I was working on my new signature for
: this group, and came across a bug (gasp! :-).
: 
: % perl -e '@a=(); %a=(1,88,2,99); print "@a{1,2}\n";'
: 88 99
: % perl -e '%a=(1,88,2,99); print "@a{1,2}\n";'
: @a{1,2}

>> patch 9.

: This is with Perl pl 6 (still waiting for patch 9, Larry :-).

I might be able to get patch 9 out if you didn't keep adding to it, Randal :-).

Larry