in reply to concatenating partially uninitialized values

my $outPath = $obj->{outpath}{absolut} . (defined $obj->{sap}{jfExtNum} ? '-' . $obj->{sap}{jfExtNum} : '');

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I wanted to explore how Perl's closures can be manipulated, and ended up creating an object system by accident.
-- Schemer

Note: All code is untested, unless otherwise stated