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splice doesn't even mention "void".

No, but the equivalence documentation you cite shows all examples in void contexts.

And in that context, the examples -- designed to explain the somewhat complex behaviour of splice in terms of the readily understandable push, pop, shift & unshift -- are exactly equivalent. Ie. Their affect on the running programs are identical.

But those examples are meant to explain splice in terms of the simpler operations -- not the other way around.

You are the only person who is trying to misinterpret these simple examples of equivalence within the very restricted context in which they are show -- all void; ie. devoid of any assignments or if or while statements -- in an obscure part of the documentation, to be some definitive statement that was never intended, in support of conclusions that do not stand up and have zero merit.

Worse thing is; you know it; but you keep on bleating away at it....

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Re^6: shift in list context buggy?
by LanX (Saint) on Nov 12, 2013 at 15:33 UTC
    > No, but the equivalence documentation you cite shows all examples in void contexts.

    Obviously wrong!

    Again! Please quote otherwise and provide a link!

    Cheers Rolf

    ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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      Please quote ...

      Why? You already posted the examples. But since you seem to have a short memory: 

      The following equivalences hold (assuming $[ == 0 and $#a >= $i )
    push(@a,$x,$y)      splice(@a,@a,0,$x,$y)
    pop(@a)             splice(@a,-1)
    shift(@a)           splice(@a,0,1)
    unshift(@a,$x,$y)   splice(@a,0,0,$x,$y)
    $a[$i] = $y         splice(@a,$i,1,$y)

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      With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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        LOL, are you serious? :)

        splice explicitly talks about list and scalar context and shows later an equivalence table w/o mentioning void-context.

        The intention is obviously to cover all contexts.

        Cheers Rolf

        ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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