Ed Avis wrote: >Another possibility is to control the autovivification behaviour with >'use 5.24' and so on. Absolutely. There is a prototype of this on CPAN, autovivification.pm, and this kind of effect seems a good candidate to be incorporated into the core. It'd have to have an independently-settable pragmatic flag, which can then be incorporated into one of the perl-version feature bundles. -zeframThread Previous