Re^3: Unexpected warning

[salva]

I can reproduce it myself too now:

tst(undef);        # doesn't warn from tst
tst($foo{undef});  # doesn't warn from tst
tst($foo{$undef}); # warns from tst

I would say this is a bug in perl, or I am missing something?

[samwyse]

The undef value is subtly different from using an undefined variable, so that may be causing the problem.

tst($foo{undef});  # doesn't warn from tst

This uses the undef value as a key into the %foo hash; the key presumably doesn't exist so Perl returns undef. This is working as I would expect.

tst($foo{$undef});  # warns from tst

This looks up the value of $undef, which presumably isn't defined, so Perl should flag an error at that statement, not inside tst. If that is the case, then it, too, is working as I would expect.