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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: "print" bug in subscripting with $[
Message-ID: <7058@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 13 Feb 90 01:13:46 GMT
References: <7280@ogicse.ogc.edu>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Lines: 9

In article <7280@ogicse.ogc.edu> schaefer@ogicse.UUCP (Barton E. Schaefer) writes:
: The following one-liner demonstrates one aspect of the problem:
: 
:     % perl -e 'sub oops { print "$_[$[]?\n"; }; do oops("aha");' 
:     Invalid component in string or format at /tmp/perl-e005977 line 2.

Will be fixed in the fabled patch 9.

Larry