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| author | Pau Amma\" (via RT) <perlbug-followup@perl.org> | 2012-03-01 10:48:23 -0800 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2012-03-04 18:01:14 -0700 |
| commit | 9590a7cd37f06922f07d87081a2fdf6a96c22b56 (patch) | |
| tree | 715b84c09e40df8a0c0638e36a611bcd5042b35d | |
| parent | 920e47bbc431efd5c1ca9d8b85fb88c172326b14 (diff) | |
| download | perl-9590a7cd37f06922f07d87081a2fdf6a96c22b56.tar.gz | |
Grammar and clarity fixes for exists() in pod/perlfunc.pod
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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index fcab06bd4d..4fd0a3a501 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -2058,7 +2058,7 @@ operation is a hash or array key lookup or subroutine name: if (exists &{$ref->{A}{B}{$key}}) { } -Although the mostly deeply nested array or hash will not spring into +Although the most deeply nested array or hash element will not spring into existence just because its existence was tested, any intervening ones will. Thus C<< $ref->{"A"} >> and C<< $ref->{"A"}->{"B"} >> will spring into existence due to the existence test for the $key element above. |