gnb@bby.oz (Gregory N. Bond) (11/14/89)
There is a bug in perl 3.0 PL4 that appears on both Sun3/SunOs3.5 and Sun4/SunOs 4.0, in that array refs in false conditionals are not properly executed: leo% ./perl -v $Header: perly.c,v 3.0.1.1 89/11/11 04:50:04 lwall Locked $ Patch level: 4 Copyright (c) 1989, Larry Wall Perl may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License, a copy of which can be found with the Perl 3.0 distribution kit. leo% ./perl -e '@Z=("zero", "one", "two"); $var=0?"true":$Z[2];print "$var\n";' zero The false conditional is evaluated as $Z[0] for all values of the subscript. And only in the false bit of a ?: statement. I have mailed lwall this one, but I have no fix. Sorry. -- Gregory Bond, Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd, Melbourne, Australia Internet: gnb@melba.bby.oz.au non-MX: gnb%melba.bby.oz@uunet.uu.net Uucp: {uunet,pyramid,ubc-cs,ukc,mcvax,prlb2,nttlab...}!munnari!melba.bby.oz!gnb