in reply to Re^3: Benchmark of hash emptiness test
in thread Benchmark of hash emptiness test
Pardon my ignorance (I don't know much about the perl internals) but I was under the impression that there was something like boolean context. So shouldn't the hash in if (%hash) {} be able to tell that it was used in boolean context and thus react accordingly? This should then be an easy patch, just defining a different behaviour for %hash in boolean (in contrast to scalar) context.
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