Re^5: specific array in hash of arrays

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Rats... "autovivication" :-(

Just when I thought I was getting to grips with Perl magic, another piece bites me in the backside... "autovivifying" an rvalue ? ...of course, silly me !

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Re^6: specific array in hash of arrays by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 09, 2008 at 15:21 UTC
lvalue or rvalue doesn't matter. Treating an undefined variable as a reference will instantiate the referree and store a reference in the variable. Note that it's `->` performing the autovivification, not `exists`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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