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From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: @array in scalar context
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Date: 24 Feb 90 20:45:08 GMT
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This has bitten me a few times.

Is it defined that a scalar reference to an @array yields its last
element? 

Most notably: "if @array" depends on the last element of @array being
zero or not, while I would have expected it to be equivalent to 
"$#array >= $[" .

Johan

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