On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com> wrote:
> > also why use qw for sequential numbers when a range will do? > > Because I went stupid and just blindly copypasted instead of thinking :) Seriously, why use qw when I'm not _quoting words_? > so you can streamline yours with a slice: > > my $status = join '', grep defined, @jvalue{ 0 .. 5 } ; > > This one was on purpose though - The slice might insert new keys into the hash, and I recently spent the good half of an hour debugging just that..! without more from the OP you can't tell > which one is better suited. > > While I agree, I think that yours is the way to go -- Hash slices don't get enough love. Thanks for the corrections, Uri!