Autovivification shouldn't fill in the data structure as I access it? So both the accesses should produce the same data structures (that's autovivification work, I guess), and Data::Dumper should produce the same result in both cases.

BTW, here is the result, again: 

perl -MData::Dumper
$data = { a=>'b', c=>'d', e=>'h', i=>'j' };
$_[3] = { a=>'b', c=>'d', e=>'h', i=>'j' };
print Dumper @$data{'a','c','e'};
print "\n";
print Dumper @{$_[3]}{'a','c','e'};
print "\n";

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and the result was: 
$VAR1 = 'b';
$VAR2 = 'd';
$VAR3 = 'h';

$VAR1 = 'b';
$VAR2 = 'd';
$VAR3 = 'h';

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exactly as expected. I'm confused. What's the problem with auto-vivification? Its supposed to fill in the "gore details", it isn't?

Thank you for your time and patience!

-- monsieur_champs

In reply to Re^4: Trying to optimize de-referenced hash slice without scope variables... by monsieur_champs
in thread Trying to optimize de-referenced hash slice without scope variables... by monsieur_champs

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