[ILUG] Recommended: gnome-terminal

[McDaid, Aaron]

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...

Could be:

@timers = (5) x @timers   ;    #set all elements to 5 

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