On 7/14/19 12:30 AM, Deven T. Corzine wrote: > > > Of course tons of code relies on autovivification. It's an awesome > feature and I certainly wasn't suggesting taking it away. That would > be a terrible idea. > > > It's the "read-only" style of access I'm talking about possibly > changing, not the normal, required autovivification that everyone > relies on all the time. > > this is such an old topic. i wrote a tutorial on autovivication some time before 2004 (lost the original date). it even has deep_exist() and deep_defined() subs that do the read only access and don't autovivify anything. http://sysarch.com/Perl/autoviv.txt have the appropriate amount of fun! uriThread Previous | Thread Next