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On Mon Mar 14 09:45:35 2016, phberninger@gmx.net wrote:
> Checking with defined for an Hash of Hash element defines the element
> in the
> hash, instead of returning undefined:The following code will reproduce
> it: perl
> -e 'if(defined($foo{"a"}{"b"})){ print "not
> defined\n";}if(defined($foo{"a"})){
> print "ERROR? now defined?\n";} ' I hope it is not a feature. tested
> with perl
> 5.20.2 under Linux
This is a known problem[1], and is difficult to fix because the change would break existing code.
You can avoid this behaviour by using the autovivication module from CPAN.
Tony
[1] that autovivication doesn't always respect lvalue vs rvalue
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via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: new
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127712
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