I was criticizing the use of the term "auto-vivify" -- merely creating entries in a hash by assigning values to them is not auto-vivifying. The process of these entries coming into being because their existence was implied is autovivification.

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Jeff japhy Pinyan: Perl, regex, and perl hacker.
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