Looks like someone is confused... Array sizes are not mutable.

/ Henrik Grubbström (Lysator)

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16493524 2008-05-12 13:56 /30 lines/ Brevbäraren Recipients: Pike (-) ticket import Subject: Array gets emptied if modified in function [4537]

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Product: Pike Version: 7.7 Component: Core Reporter: peter@roxen.com URL: https://community.roxen.com/crunch/show_bug.cgi?id=4537

Pike 7.7.45 from CVS as of a few hours ago:

% cat bug_array.pike void fiddle(array a) { a += ({ 2 }); }

void main() { array a = ({}); fiddle( a ); if(!sizeof(a)) werror("Array is broken: %O\n", a); else werror("Array is ok: %O\n", a); } % ~/bin/pike77-2/bin/pike bug_array.pike Array is broken: ({ })

(Initially reported by Tim Johansson, Opera Software)

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