# New Ticket Created by "Christoph Otto (Volt)"
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When running the following PIR code, Parrot does the Perlish thing and
implicitly converts s to an int. This violates the principle of least surprise
and makes it unnecessarily difficult to test whether an element exists within
an array. It would be much more logical if the array-like PMCs threw an
exception in this circumstance.
.sub _main
.local pmc a
.local string s
a = new 'ResizablePMCArray'
a['foo'] = 'stuff'
s = a['bar']
print s #prints 'stuff'
s = a[0]
print s #prints 'stuff'
print "\n"
.end
