Re: exists &sub (was: exists $foo[7] and delete $foo[7])

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 01:39:37AM -0500, spider-perl@Orb.Nashua.NH.US wrote:
> 

One little typo...

> --- ./pod/perlfunc.pod.GSAR	Tue Jan 18 23:16:46 2000
> +++ ./pod/perlfunc.pod	Wed Jan 19 00:53:51 2000
> @@ -1422,8 +1422,16 @@ element is not autovivified if it doesn'
>  A hash or array element can be true only if it's defined, and defined if
>  it exists, but the reverse doesn't necessarily hold true.
>  
> +Given an expression that specifies the name of a subroutine,
> +returns true of the specified subroutine has ever been declared, even

Should be "returns true if".

> +if it is undefined.  Mentioning a subroutine name for exists or defined
> +does not count as declaring it.
> +

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