exists("*Foo!garbage") = 1 ?

[Srinath Avadhanula]

Hi,

If there is a function called Foo(), then it looks like exists('*Foo\W.*')
evaluates to 1. For example

   :fun Foo
   :   return 1
   :endfun
   :echo exists('*Foo!asdf')
   " prints 1

This happens not just for functions, but variables etc. also. For
variables, I can work around this by using has_key(g:, varname)
instead of exists('g:'.varname).

Thank you,
Srinath