As of 8.2 we could allow assignment to arbitrary positions by filling the intermediate positions with nulls.The code hasn't actually been changed to allow that, but it's somethingwe could consider doing now.At first blush, this strikes me as a bit too magical/implicit. Are there other languages where sequences behave similarly?
> perl -e '@A = (1, 2, 3); print "@A\n"; $A[10] = 10; print "@A\n";' 1 2 3 1 2 3 10 - John D. Burger MITRE
