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Re: Re: Re: Perl Idioms Explained - my ($foo, $bar) = @{shift(@_)}{qw/ -foo -bar /}

by hardburn (Abbot)
on Apr 13, 2004 at 13:38 UTC ( [id://344710]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re: Perl Idioms Explained - my ($foo, $bar) = @{shift(@_)}{qw/ -foo -bar /}
in thread Perl Idioms Explained - my ($foo, $bar) = @{shift(@_)}{qw/ -foo -bar /}

A zero and empty string are (mostly) the same thing as far as Perl is concerned. The only time I worry about ditching undef values is if my interface exlicitly states that undef is different from any other false value. Otherwise you're asking to get a lot of 'use of unintitilized value' warnings.

BTW--I like your @$self{keys %SELF) = @{+shift}{keys %SELF}; example, but it deserves some comments for the poor maintance programmer, who may not have as much Perl-foo as you do.

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