Re: RFC195: Do not remove 'chop' PLEASE!

[abigail]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 10:39:42AM -0500, John Porter wrote:
> Uri Guttman wrote:
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Why does it work that way?
> > 
> > people wanted access the the actual values of a hash when doing
> >     foreach ( values %hash )
> > so they can mung them. 
> 
> Yes; but the question isn't really "why", it's "how".
> Apparently chop() is specialized internally to detect the
> hashness of its argument, in a way that can't be expressed
> by a prototype.


And I guess every other operator is specialized internally as well?

    $ perl -wle '%h = qw /foo bar baz qux/; map {s/.$//} %h; $, = " "; print %h'
    foo ba baz qu
    $


Abigail