Re^2: How's your Perl? (II)

Confirmed on 5.6.1, 5.8.0, 5.8.1, 5.8.3. Doesn't work on 5.8.4 and 5.8.5.
And I think it should not work, because $foo[$[] is the first element and $foo[$[+1] is the second; I don't see how $[ and $[+1 can refer to the same element.

All exercises have been tested with perl 5.8.*, and solutions do not necessarily have to work with any other version.

I take this to imply that solutions should work with all 5.8.* perls.

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Re^3: How's your Perl? (II) by xmath (Hermit) on Jul 22, 2004 at 09:00 UTC
Hm, strange.. I actually wrote `$foo[$[]` in the assuption this would prevent any `$[`-fiddling and force the real solution, but it seems `$[` really doesn't work properly in perl: `perl -le '$[ = -1; @x = (42); $y = 0; print $x[$y]'` prints 42 for me on 5.8.3 and 5.8.4... I'll add a note to the exercise that the intention is to solve it without diddling `$[`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: How's your Perl? (II) by Errto (Vicar) on Jul 22, 2004 at 13:20 UTC
Fair enough. My only excuse is that 5.8.3 is the only version I have, and that the other way seemed too similar to one of the solutions from last time around so I wanted to try something different :) I was trying to use the fact that `$foo[-1]` is the last element in the array, so if the array only has one element ...	[reply] [d/l]