Re: uninitialized vs. undefined

[JVromans@squirrel.nl (Johan Vromans)]

[Quoting Tom Christiansen, on January 14 2000, 14:04, in "Re: uninitialized vs"]
> Another way of looking at it (mjd: shh about &fn) is that defined()
> is asking whether a scalar value happen to hold the value undef().
> I find this a much better way to think about it, because now one
> never tries to do silly things like asking whether an aggregate
> holds the value undef().  

Shouldn't we use 'exists(&fun)' instead of 'defined(&fun)' then?
Or, better still, 'UNIVERSAL::can("fun")'.

-- Johan

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