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List:       perl5-porters
Subject:    Re: [perl #34470] Tied hash - hash slice - bug?
From:       David Nicol <davidnicol () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-03-29 23:30:27
Message-ID: 934f64a2050329153049a64ad5 () mail ! gmail ! com
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>  This means that the store routine is only called once, even though it should be
>  called for each element when a hash-slice is used.

>  Doing the same thing on a 'normal' hash will create the 3 keys, where the first
>  2 have a value of undef, and the last one a value of 1

 There is only one store, but there may be three fetches.  The
autovivification happens
at fetch time.

post-increment appears to increment the last element of hash slices
but not against
arrays in general.  Is this by design or laxity?
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