* Father Chrysostomos via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> [2016-09-04 04:12]: > it has been put off indefinitely because it would cause a significant > slowdown. It’s not just speed. The semantics are serious headache too. Referential identity is impossible without actually allocating the key, and without it, you get it into all sorts of fun games regarding the order in which things happen. The bug that *could* be fixed is autovivification in *rvalue* context. But not lvalue context; that would be way too much of a braintwister. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>Thread Previous | Thread Next