Re (tilly) 3: (Golf) Strings-to-Array

[tilly]

in reply to Re: Re (tilly) 1: (Golf) Strings-to-Array
in thread (Golf) Strings-to-Array

In Perl 5.6.0 if you passed in literal strings, you got an error about, "Modification of a read-only value attempted". Recopying @_ fixed that.

And the time when $s and $s.0 are different in boolean context is when $s is "0". So when you remove those two characters, you get a bug.

UPDATE
An example that shows the bug:

print map "$_\n", r("0a1", "b0", "0"); 

[demerphq]

Hmm, and I reran it with literal params (I was using an @array) and I got that warnings as well. Interesting. OST. It follows from the fact @_ alises not copies, but still somehow surprising.

And it is also very interesting to learn that '00' evals to true. Definitely *not* what I expected. I was thinking that it would fall under the evals to 0 rule, but now I see not. Thanx.

On the other hand I tested a bunch of cases with 0's in them and I couldnt see how it affected the solution?

Yves

[demerphq]

Hi Tilly.

Ok so on that input it doesnt work.

I guess now I'm being a pain, but japhy's spec *did* say make a function that takes any number of equal-length strings

However I do believe in defensive programming, so I can see why you did that.

Very interesting, and food for thought

Yves

$\="\n"; $,=",";
print r("0000", "0000", "0000");
#outputs
#000,000,000,000

[tilly]

And what happens if you call r('0000')?

Any number includes 1. :-)