On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 05:56:58 -0400, David Storrs wrote: > While I think your P6 code is great, I don't feel you're comparing apples to > apples. In all your P6 examples you effectively break the autovivify step > out > from the other steps. You can do that in P5 too:
To me the code below isn't broken up - it still happens in the same
loop, at the same level.
I'd like to "feel" like i'm describing how this hash should look
like, and from then on to let the the values pop up as necessary.
> foreach my $thing (@things){
> $index_by_x{$thing->x_value} ||= Set::Object->new;
> $index_by_y{$thing->y_value} ||= Set::Object->new;
> $index_by_z{$thing->z_value} ||= Set::Object->new;
>
> $index_by_x{$thing->x_value}->insert($thing);
> $index_by_y{$thing->y_value}->insert($thing);
> $index_by_z{$thing->z_value}->insert($thing);
> }
This oranges that I think perl 6 should give me allow me to say:
foreach my $thing (@things) {
$index_by_x{$thing->x_value}->insert($thing)
}
Since earlier i said "this is an array of sets" and now i'm saying
"this is how i populate the sets".
In perl 5 it isn't possible. I've got to say "here are some things,
put them in this set, and if the set is not there, make a new one".
That's exactly what I would like to change =)
> IMO, this would be even clearer:
>
> foreach my $thing (@things){
> my($x,$y,$z) = ($thing->x_value, $thing->y_value, $thing- >z_value);
>
> $index_by_x{$x} ||= Set::Object->new;
> $index_by_y{$y} ||= Set::Object->new;
> $index_by_z{$z} ||= Set::Object->new;
>
> $index_by_x{$x}->insert($thing);
> $index_by_y{$y}->insert($thing);
> $index_by_z{$z}->insert($thing);
> }
This is a pet peeve of mine. For some reason I really really hate
it when something is referred to more than once, when there is
lookup involved.
I personally feel that
($index_by_z{$thing->z_value} ||= Set::Object->new)->insert($thing)
is actually cleaner than this, but that might just
be me.
Furthermore, it doesn't change the semantics:
"this is an hash of sets"
...
"this is what a set contains"
vs.
"this is a hash"
...
"if there is no set make one, and this is what a set contains"
but just the syntax.
> This has the advantage of being very nonmagical, keeping code together, and
> avoiding AAAD.
Arguably for plain container types autovivification is semantically
safe, at least in my opinion. I would do this for weird things (for
example, autovivification should not know the key it's autovivifying
- if you want to go that far, just tie the structure).
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