[VPM] question about possible Perl runtime bug

Nathanael Kuipers nkuipers at uvic.ca
Sun Jul 6 21:32:45 CDT 2003


>is it so-called "proper behaviour"?

I *think* that what you have encountered is called autovivification, and 
depending how you look at it, it's Perl being naughty or nice.  There was a 
thread on this on perlmonks last week, some moron was complaining that he was 
mis-spelling his keys or even hash names and loading up the wrong hashes with 
the wrong values, and he wanted a 'no autovivification' sort of pragma.  I 
told him to stop whining and pay more attention while programming. :)

Gosh, hope it wasn't any of you...

nathanael




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