Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bfmny0!tneff
From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: panic: A_LVAL (perl 3.0 pl 14)
Message-ID: <15251@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 14 Mar 90 16:29:34 GMT
References: <2645@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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In article <2645@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
>The following perl script crashes with a 'panic: A_LVAL':
>
>$#x = 5;
>for (@x) { $_ = '' ;}

Same on my Sys V/386 PL14 version.  And

	$#x = 5;
	for (@x) { $_; }

dumps core.  Sounds worth fixing, and I can't find a quick workaround.
I suppose you could pre-initialize arrays by saying

	eval "@x = (" . "''," x $MAXELTS . ")";

instead of just bumping the index, until Larry fixes it.
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