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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:06:21 EDT
From: Jerrad Pierce <belg4mit>
>It will show that you are doing what you *want* to do, not letting
>automagic error-blind spoofery behind the curtains flummux up
>your life unnecessarily.
Umm no.. for what I *want* to do is take the keys of the hash returned as a
list by a block. That's what I want. And yes I can do it with %{{}}.
But it's hardly symmetrical to working with arrays, and definitely not
obvious. Especially to a newbie, and even to lightly seasoned veterans.
How is it error-blind? Someone proposed that it complain if the cast was
performed on an odd-element list. But even that could be valid (the last key
has undef as a value). And I proposed making strict catch this. What other
errors might there be?
Whatever happened to making easy things easy, out of the box?
And if I want to be a masochist and have my code scrutinized like hell,
using strict, -wT ?
use strict 'hash';
no strict 'hash';
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