> Hello everybody,
> recently, I read the following statement in a CPAN Ratings entry:
> "this package also uses wantarray (a transgression amongst interface
> sensibilities)."
Hi Lutz,
I've read that too and my reaction was "what a totally ridiculous claim!". And
it is based on ... nil or mayb
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:32:59AM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> That might be simple, but no builtins do this, which seems to say
> something. If you're still working with lists, you expect them to
> behave like lists, and not try to package themselves in a reference
The following comment has
Hello everybody,
thanks for all your comments.
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:49:09AM -0400, Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote:
> relatively simple "return an array in list context, or an arrayref in scalar
> context" often ends up irritating me more than it's worth (including when I
> wrote the function that
# from Hans Dieter Pearcey
# on Wednesday 12 May 2010 08:49:
>...just because it's not how arrays work anywhere else in Perl,
This is not about how arrays work, but how functions work. See
localtime(), caller(), each(), glob(), readline(), etc.
But then see sort() and split().
There are reaso
On Wed, 12 May 2010 09:55:13 +1200, Lutz Gehlen wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> recently, I read the following statement in a CPAN Ratings entry:
> "this package also uses wantarray (a transgression amongst interface
> sensibilities)."
>
> I also sometimes use wantarray and don't see anything bad abo
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 May 2010 00:55:13 Lutz Gehlen wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>> recently, I read the following statement in a CPAN Ratings entry:
>> "this package also uses wantarray (a transgression amongst interface
>> sensibilities)."
C is how
On Wednesday 12 May 2010 00:55:13 Lutz Gehlen wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> recently, I read the following statement in a CPAN Ratings entry:
> "this package also uses wantarray (a transgression amongst interface
> sensibilities)."
>
> I also sometimes use wantarray and don't see anything bad about
