[Israel.pm] negative array indexing

[Yaakov Belch]

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>@a=(5,6,7); $a[-5]=22;
>Is this one allowed ?
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I just typed into the shell:
   perl -we '@a=(5,6,7); $a[-5]=22'
Perl answers your question:
  Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, subscript -5 at 
-e line 1.

Thus, we see that only positive array entries can be created.

Yaakov