At 11:00 AM -0700 8/8/02, Steve Fink wrote:
>Oh, yeah. The perl6 summary reminded me: I forgot to mention that this
>would also make $a[-6] (or @a[-6] if you're writing perl6) on a
>4-element array throw an exception instead of autoextending the array,
>wrapping around to a valid element, or exploding in flames. That goes
>for both Array and PerlArray. I don't remember what the currently
>checked-in version does.
Array and PerlArray shouldn't autoextend that way, I think. I'm not
100% sure that Array should auto-extend at all--I think I'd rather it
didn't. We need to check with Larry as to whether PerlArrays should
autoextend when using excess negative indices.
>The other array-related thing in the perl6 summary was about a fetch
>of $a[10000] triggering autoextension to 10001 elements -- that
>doesn't happen anymore with this patch.
That's a good thing, though.
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