I'm having a little trouble following the documentation on pushing. It gives us the example: 
    for $value (LIST) {
        $ARRAY[++$#ARRAY] = $value;
    }

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I'm assuming (LIST) should be an array list, and if that's so it would have been nice if they said that in the docs because at first I thought it was a filehandle of some kind.

$ARRAY[..] = $value looks like a hash rather than an array so what's really happening? Are the values stripped from the list, placed into a hash then rewritten back into the list?

And what happens if your list isn't an array but you want to make it one? For example I'm trying to do something like: 

while (($this,$that)= each(%list)) {
add each $this and $that into the array
sort out array by numerics (highest $that (which is always a number) w
+ill be on top).

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I'm not really complaining but one day when I know enough what I'm talking about I'll try writing some documents on functions like this and make it easier for people to understand (hopefully it's not just me who has problems following them). Thanks monks.

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sulfericacid

update (broquaint): added a pair of <code> tags

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