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 I do not believe this is a bug. The test for definedness of $foo{a}{b} in the first 'if' block autovivifies $foo{a}, -- James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org) --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127712Thread Previous | Thread Next