Re^2: How to have a subroutine return an undefined hash

Quoth perldoc -f defined:

  Use of "defined" on aggregates (hashes and arrays) is depre-
  cated.  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"   }
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Re^3: How to have a subroutine return an undefined hash by samizdat (Vicar) on Apr 26, 2005 at 12:59 UTC
Gawd! Moving targets, yet. Thank you, Fletch, I stand corrected!	[reply]