Re: using range gives warning
From: Brian McCauley (nobull_at_mail.com)
Date: 10/23/04
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Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:47:41 +0100
David K. Wall wrote:
> Paul Lalli <mritty@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>"Brian McCauley" <nobull@mail.com> wrote in message
>>news:clbghd$hqd$1@sun3.bham.ac.uk...
>>
>>>You appear to be confused by the behaviour of the range operator.
>>>
>>>Have you considered the possibility of reading the explaination
>>>of the behaviour of the range operator in the reference manual?
>>>(At least as far as the end of the first sentence).
>>>
>>>Looking up the thing you are confused about in the reference
>>>manual should come earlier in you problem solving path than
>>>posting to Usenet.
>>
>>Yup. And in fact, I did read perldoc perlop prior to posting -
>>but because of the circumstance in which I found this error, I was
>>looking for an explanation regarding something that had to do with
>>assigning to an array element. It simply didn't occur to me that
>>I was using scalar context.
>>
>>My apologies again
>
>
> This simply won't do, Paul. Haven't you learned anything here? You're
> supposed to flame Brian for being rude to you and demand that he
> parrot the documentation to you rather than reading it for yourself.
And now I am going to mess things up further by apologising that my
response was not clearly enough tounge-in-cheek - it really could have
done with a few smilies. I didn't really think that Paul hadn't RTFM.
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