$blah[++$#blah] = 'New element';
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Ouch. That has exactly the semantics of:

push @blah, 'New element';
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but without all the readable syntax.

Please, never ever ever suggest such an atrocity again!

{grin}

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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