On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 09:38:35PM +0200, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: [...] > So if the hash wasn't already initialized then the reference in the > Foo struct is a reference to null, and if you duplicate that reference > and add a key the old reference still points to null. > > The only way to ensure a proper link with a hash is to initialize it > with a key and then immediately remove that key, which makes the hash > not-null but empty: [...] > Why do we have such error-prone semantics?
I was told that this was expected behaviour. Should the new AA implementation change this, so that it always allocates an empty AA upon instantiation? T -- For every argument for something, there is always an equal and opposite argument against it. Debates don't give answers, only wounded or inflated egos.
