Auto-vivification of nested aggregates is deprecated.

[bacek]

E.g.

$P0 = new ['Hash']
$S0 = $P0['foo';'bar';'baz']

will not auto-vivify nested Hashes and return NULL early.

[jkeenan]

We're approaching 2.9. Can we get an update on the status of this deprecation?

Thank you very much.

kid51

[whiteknight]

As far as I can see, this is already done. I did a quick skim through all the array types and through Hash, and I didn't see any types that were autovivifying nested aggregates. I think we can close this ticket, unless there is a type that I am missing.

[whiteknight]

Actually, my quick analysis was wrong. Hashes were still autovivifying, and it looks like RPA is too. I just fixed Hash (no tests broke), and will look at RPA later.

[whiteknight]

I've turned this into a GCI task.

[Yuki`N]

I'm going to take care of this; traced the autovivification behavior back to FixedPMCArray and will write up tests soon.

[Yuki`N]

This is fixed by  a commit in my fork. Added a test to FixedPMCArray to prove autovivification is dead. Hopefully then we can set this ticket to rest.

[Yuki`N]

Requested my fork be pulled  here.

[bacek]

Auto-vivification was removed. Closing ticket.