Ronald J Kimball wrote: > > That would be a rather serious design error, wouldn't you say? Yep... > Anyway, as you can see, you have nothing to worry about: Whew! > Perl's memory usage increases only when elements past the end of the array > are actually assigned to, not when they are merely accessed. Great. As I said, I wasn't sure. -- John Porter "There are people who have fun studying the C++ spec for literally seconds on end, I'm sure..." John Vlissides ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe