in reply to Strange behavior of array in scalar context

Stangely, the syntax : 
$#executions

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returns correctly 0

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Re^2: Strange behavior of array in scalar context
by hippo (Archbishop) on Jan 26, 2026 at 10:32 UTC

    That indicates that the array does have one element.

    my @x = ();
my @y = (99);
print "x count is $#x, y count is $#y\n";

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    results in

    x count is -1, y count is 0

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