Re^5: optimization - exists should return a reference

print ${exists $foo{'bar'}}; # ... print ${$foo{'bar'}};
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These differ. The former would print the value of $foo{bar}, the latter of ${$foo{bar}}.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^6: optimization - exists should return a reference by LAI (Hermit) on Jan 16, 2003 at 16:11 UTC
Sorry, my fault for not being clear. I wrote: `print ${exists $foo{'bar'}}; #[...][is] really no different from: print ${$foo{'bar'}};` [download] When what I meant is that either can be considered 'wrong' for the same reason: that they may be undef or scalar or whatnot, therefore breaking the dereference. LAI :eof	[reply] [d/l]