Re: Predeclaration

Is anyone else surprised by the results?

People who read the manual pages will not be surprised. From the manual page about defined:

               Use of "defined" on aggregates (hashes and arrays)
               is deprecated.  It used to report whether memory
               for that aggregate has ever been allocated.  This
               behavior may disappear in future versions of Perl.
               You should instead use a simple test for size:

                   if (@an_array) { print "has array elements\n" }
                   if (%a_hash)   { print "has hash members\n"   }

Abigail

Comment on Re: Predeclaration Download Code

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: Re: Predeclaration by flounder99 (Friar) on Jul 16, 2002 at 17:39 UTC
Damn documentation! Another case of what I think it does vs. what it really does (and is documented) DWIMing has me spoiled. I think perl's ability to read my mind needs improving! Larry needs to take some lessons from Miss Cleo! (Or at least the acress who plays her) -- flounder ps. For those of you outside the USA (or who never turned on a TV after 11pm in the US) Miss Cleo was a (so called) psychic with a bad fake Jamacan accent who pushed a psychic hotline. The actress who played her recently appeared in court and admitted she was not Jamacan during a fraud investigation.	[reply]

Replies are listed 'Best First'.

Re: Re: Predeclaration
by flounder99 (Friar) on Jul 16, 2002 at 17:39 UTC

flounder

ps. For those of you outside the USA (or who never turned on a TV after 11pm in the US) Miss Cleo was a (so called) psychic with a bad fake Jamacan accent who pushed a psychic hotline. The actress who played her recently appeared in court and admitted she was not Jamacan during a fraud investigation.

[reply]