On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 10:39:42AM -0500, John Porter wrote:
> 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.
That's what I thought, but no. The hash
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:47:47 -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
>well, according to this
>
>perl5.6.0 -le '%h = qw( a b c d ); $_ .= 1 for %h ; print values %h ; chop %h ; print
>values %h'
>b1d1
>bd
>
>it doesn't appear to be a chop specific thing. unraveling a hash always
>seems to use aliases for the
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
> "JP" == John Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JP> Yes; but the question isn't really "why", it's "how".
JP> Apparently chop() is specialized internally to detect the
JP> hashness of its argument, in a way that can't be expressed
JP> by a prototype.
well, according to this
perl5.
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 in
Today around 10:19pm, Bart Lateur hammered out this masterpiece:
: I, too, once used chop() to get the last character of a string, in my
: case to calculate a barcode check digit.
:
: while(my $digit = chop($barcode)) {
: ...
: }
:
: The while loop should have continued un
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:42:43 -0700, root wrote:
>I read RFC195 suggesting to drop 'chop' and go with 'chomp'.
>What does 'chop' have anything to do with 'chomp'?
>I'm totally oppose to that. Consider:
>
>my $s;
>map { /\S/ && $s .= "$_ " } split(/\s+/,@_);
>chop($s);
>return $s;
Excuse me, but y
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 12:59:53PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 04:28:08PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Aliasing again. They keys are copies, the values aliases.
>
> How bizarre? Why does it work that way?
keys HASH returns copies of the keys, while values HA
> "MGS" == Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MGS> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 04:28:08PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Aliasing again. They keys are copies, the values aliases.
MGS> How bizarre? Why does it work that way?
well, my take is that it works for the same reaso
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 04:28:08PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Aliasing again. They keys are copies, the values aliases.
How bizarre? Why does it work that way?
--
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On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 12:57:07AM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 01:26:09AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 05:13:23PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > This one not only modifies its arguments (or $_ when called without),
> > it also has t
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 01:26:09AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 05:13:23PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> This one not only modifies its arguments (or $_ when called without),
> it also has the right prototype and works on lists:
>
> sub chop (@) {
> my
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 05:13:23PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:42:43PM -0700, root wrote:
> > I read RFC195 suggesting to drop 'chop' and go with 'chomp'.
> > What does 'chop' have anything to do with 'chomp'?
>
> chop() and chomp() are very often confused due to
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:42:43PM -0700, root wrote:
> I read RFC195 suggesting to drop 'chop' and go with 'chomp'.
> What does 'chop' have anything to do with 'chomp'?
chop() and chomp() are very often confused due to their similar names,
similar functionality and the fact that chop() did chomp
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