Re^2: Build your array with push

I don't like the push way of constructing arrays.

You think that's bad, I once had to maintain a program that did this:

my @array;
$array[$#array] = "Hibbs";
$array[$#array] = "Daglish";
$array[$#array] = "Schwartz";
$array[$#array] = "Vroom";
...
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And so on for about 30 lines.

One of the few times I felt justified in regexing some code.

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Re^3: Build your array with push by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Jan 31, 2006 at 20:26 UTC
Woah, woah, woah. That code just replaces the last element multiple times. Did you maybe mean `$array[@array] = "Hibbs";` [download] or `$array[++$#array] = "Hibbs";` [download] ? Caution: Contents may have been coded under pressure.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Build your array with push by friedo (Prior) on Jan 31, 2006 at 21:31 UTC
Nope, I meant what I said, believe it or not. The program never worked correctly, and that was one of many reasons why. (No `strict`, either.) Amazingly, this one dude had been working on it for six weeks before I saw it.	[reply] [d/l]