Re: [GENERAL] Array assignment behavior (was Re: Stored procedure array limits)

["John D. Burger" <john(at)mitre(dot)org>]

> > As of 8.2 we could allow assignment to
> > arbitrary positions by filling the intermediate positions with nulls.
> > The code hasn't actually been changed to allow that, but it's  
> > something
> > we could consider doing now.
>
> At first blush, this strikes me as a bit too magical/implicit. Are  
> there other languages where sequences behave similarly?

> perl -e '@A = (1, 2, 3); print "@A\n"; $A[10] = 10; print "@A\n";'
1 2 3
1 2 3        10

- John D. Burger
  MITRE