Re^4: Strange memory growth

[Anonymous Monk]

I guess that I'm still confused. When I look at Huck's solution, I see that short-circuit conditional expression optimization will stop the evaluation at the first "false" result. Therefore, as far as I can see, no auto-vivification would occur. My question was therefore whether it actually mattered which function-call Huck used.

[Marshall]

Yes that is true, the function used does not matter. The solution from huck is fine. I updated my original post with a similar example.