On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 01:51:05PM +0100, Fergal Daly wrote:
> At 13:33 21/06/00, kevin lyda wrote:
> >[0] this is a bad thing[1][2] to do:
> > while (scalar(@timers) < 5) {
> > push(@timers, 0);
> > }
> I'm preparing myself to be embarrassed but I can't see nowt wrong with that
> and when I ran it just created an array of 5 0s. The only thing I could
> spot was the unnecessary use of scalar...
sorry, that was the fixed one. the original one was missing the
text " < 5". bummer.
the scalar just makes things a bit clearer.
kevin
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