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Re: Autovivification of scalars in sub calls

by ambrus (Abbot)
on Dec 08, 2005 at 09:07 UTC ( [id://515167]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Autovivification of scalars in sub calls

Incidentally, builtin functions do not provide a similar service:

Some builtin functions do. scalar (your example) doesn't, as it never changes its arguments. However, grep does which caused a strange bug for me once: Aliasing bites.

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