Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] perl whine

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 12.05 -0400 2000.06.08, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 11:51:16AM -0400, Eric Rainey wrote:
>> I'd like to voice my frustration at the following perl behavior:
>>
>> if you have a reference, say $ref->anon_array_ref->values,
>> and you dereference a value in an anon_array_ref, it gladly creates
>> the anon_array_ref for you if it doesn't exist.
>
>This is a long-standing issue.  Fixing it is hard.  Patches welcome.  :)

exists() now works on arrays in perl 5.6, right?  Would that help take care
of it?

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