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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Array slicing bug
Message-ID: <7112@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 19 Feb 90 21:40:31 GMT
References: <1990Feb19.112520.23521@axion.bt.co.uk>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1990Feb19.112520.23521@axion.bt.co.uk> nwinton@iona.axion.bt.co.uk (Neil Winton) writes:
: Ok, perl is wonderful, but there's still one or two rough edges.
: Here's my first contribution to the bug list.  Array slices don't
: appear to honour the $[ variable.  This seems to be reproducible
: on both a VAX and Sun 4.  See the attached typescript.

Thanks, the fix was easy.

: BTW, while I was taking part in the POSIX 1003.2 meetings we were
: putting another of Larry's children, patch, into the `User Portability
: Extension'.  For a while the terms `hunk', `leading garbage'
: and `trailing garbage' were in there as good standard terms ...

And they have some good substitute for them, I suppose?

: Perhaps we might manage to get perl into POSIX some day (but not within
: the current balloting cycle!)

: *** This line intentionally left justified ***

Ouch!!!   How wonderfully garden pathological!

Well, my fire alarm just went off, so I better see if patch 9 is burning
up.

Larry