RE: [FWP] Perl Card Games

[Larry Rosler <lr@hpl.hp.com>]

> From: John Porter [mailto:jdporter@min.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 07:51
> To: fwp@technofile.org
> Subject: Re: [FWP] Perl Card Games
> 
...
> 	@a = (undef) x 5;  # any value; it will get overwritten.

I keep seeing that, and I keep wondering how that differs from this:

      my @a; $#a = 4;

Enlightenment, please?

-- 
Larry Rosler
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Larry_Rosler/
lr@hpl.hp.com 

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