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• this doesn't bother me (Score:1)

  by rjbs (4671) on 2009.08.17 16:03 (#70119) Homepage Journal

  Perl has foibles like this, too:

    DB<1> @a = (1,2,3)
    DB<2> delete $a[1]
    DB<3> x \@a
  0  ARRAY(0x90a6d0)
     0  1
     1  empty slot
     2  3

  ..and PHP has exactly what you suggested.

  <? $x = array(1,2,3); array_splice($x, 1, 1); var_dump($x); ?>
  array(2) {
    [0]=>
    int(1)
    [1]=>
    int(3)
  }

  Just because PHP is often intolerable doesn't mean that everything it does is wronger than Perl.

  --
  rjbs

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  • I think you misunderstood (Score:1)

    by xsawyerx (8978)

    PHP removes the index, which is the problematic part. Your Perl example shows exactly what my Perl example shows, which is that Perl just puts the value on undef and keeps the index, so you can iterate without a problem. This is far from a foible and is the correct and best result. This is not a Perl "feature", Python and Ruby behave the exact same way. PHP is the different here, and it is indeed stupid.

    $ my @a = (1, 2, 3)
    $ARRAY1 = [
                1,