2.07 - fixed cpan bugid #1351, SaveConfig contained a deprecated

function call which caused the module to croak.
         - added feature request, if in extended mode (OOP turned
           on with -ExtendedAccess => 1 access to non-existent keys	
           caused a croak. While this is still the default behavior
           it is now possible to turn this off using -StrictObjects => 0.
         - added this to the related pod section in ::Extended.
         - fixed bug in new() which caused a couple of errors
           if the ConfigFile parameter is not set, or is set to
           undef. In this case it will now simply create an empty
           object.
         - fixed related bug in save_file() which will save "" to
           a file now if the config is uninitialized (i.e. the case
           mentioned below arrived).


git-svn-id: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/Config-General/trunk@33 be1acefe-a474-0410-9a34-9b3221f2030f

General/Extended.pm

@@ -242,7 +242,13 @@ sub AUTOLOAD {
     }
   }
   else {
-    croak "\"$key\" does not exist within current object\n";
+    if ($this->{StrictObjects}) {
+      croak "\"$key\" does not exist within current object\n";
+    }
+    else {
+      # be cool
+      return undef;
+    }
   }
 }
 
@@ -466,6 +472,10 @@ This notation supports only scalar values! You need to make sure, that the block
 <person> does not contain any subblock or multiple identical options(which will become
 an array after parsing)!
 
+If you access a non-existent key this way, Config::General will croak an error.
+You can turn this behavior off by setting B<-StrictObjects> to 0 or "no". In
+this case undef will be returned.
+
 Of course you can use this kind of methods for writing data too:
 
  $person->name("Neustein");