Re: RFC 188 (v1) Objects : Private keys and methods

[Bart Lateur]

On Tue, 05 Sep 2000 19:08:18 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:

>>      exists  (sometimes causes autovivification, which affects C<keys>)
>
>That's not technically accurate--exists never causes autovivification.  

        print exists $hash{foo}{bar}{baz};
        use Data::Dumper;
        print Dumper \%hash;

Technically correct or not, there IS some autovivification going on, and
it's due to what's tested in exists().

-- 
        Bart.