This has been discussed on p5p many many times. And many times
I have agreed with what you wrote. However one thing you did not mention,
but does need to be considered is
func($x{1}{2}{3})
at this point you do not know if this is a read or write access as
the sub could do $_[0] = 'fred'. If
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Graham Barr wrote:
This has been discussed on p5p many many times. And many times
I have agreed with what you wrote. However one thing you did not mention,
but does need to be considered is
func($x{1}{2}{3})
at this point you do not know if this is a read or
Can the autovivication behavior be changed slightly for Perl 6?
Specificly, can we suppress autovivication in read-only circumstances, and
evaluate the expression as "undef" immediately instead of autovivicating
empty data structures that didn't exist before?
The current behavior in Perl 5 is
