Interestingly, this is not terribly uncommon. While living in Amsterdam and being forced to endure the hell that is VBScript, I wrote many of the same routines for that language. Like you, though, I failed to emulate them properly. For example, push actually returns the number of elements added to the array:

    public int push( PerlList list )
    {
        Enumeration elems = list.elements();
      
        while( elems.hasMoreElements() )
           addElement( elems.nextElement() );

        return list.size();
    }
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Of course, I can't help but wonder if that's a waste of time. I don't recall ever seeing any code that actually checks that return value, but then, if you're going to emulate... :)

Cheers,
Ovid

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