vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) (06/28/90)
>> I might be able to come up with some kind of a relaxed lvalue thingie >> that creates array elements but doesn't squawk about non-lvalue-looking >> items, but I'd have to think about it some. Documenting it would be enough. This is a pretty subtle side-effect. I eventually redesigned the entire subroutine interface, so this no longer affects me; I know that *I* will remember that $x{$y} can't be reliably passed by reference if it doesn't preexist, but perhaps there are a few thousand other perl programmers who would benefit from read- ing about this before discovering it first hand :-). -- Paul Vixie DEC Western Research Lab <vixie@wrl.dec.com> Palo Alto, California ...!decwrl!vixie