Hofmator has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
use strict; use warnings; my %h = (1=>2, 3=>4); sub say { print @_, $/ }; sub get_keys { print 'called:'; if (wantarray()) { print 'array:'; } else { print defined wantarray() ? 'scalar' : 'void'; } return keys %h; } # Output: say sort get_keys; # get_keys say sort get_keys(); # say sort &get_keys; # called:array:13 say sort &get_keys(); # called:array:13 say sort @{[get_keys]}; # called:array:13 say sort @{[get_keys()]}; # called:array:13
I would have expected that all these outputs would be identical. Here my guesses what went wrong. Could somebody shed some more light on it, please.
- The first case somehow gets interpreted as a bareword - and use strict; doesn't complain because there is a subroutine with that name.
- For the second case I'm really at a loss ...
- The rest of the cases show various ways of making it work. I'm a bit surprised as perlsub says this concerning the calling of functions
Therefore there shouldn't be any difference between get_keys() and &get_keys() as get_keys doesn't use prototypes.NAME(LIST); # & is optional with parentheses. NAME LIST; # Parentheses optional if predeclared/import +ed. &NAME(LIST); # Circumvent prototypes.
In case it matters: This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i386-linux.
And btw, I came across this when I tested App::Ack (Version 1.50) and tried to run ack --help types which doesn't display any types for me. Tracking it down, I reached the following line in App::Ack::show_help_types, which exhibits the behaviour of case 2 above.
for my $type ( sort( filetypes_supported() ) ) {
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Re: Sorting result of function call
by jbert (Priest) on Dec 20, 2006 at 09:45 UTC | |
by Hofmator (Curate) on Dec 20, 2006 at 09:58 UTC | |
by jbert (Priest) on Dec 20, 2006 at 10:18 UTC | |
by ysth (Canon) on Dec 20, 2006 at 10:52 UTC | |
Re: Sorting result of function call
by sgt (Deacon) on Dec 20, 2006 at 10:25 UTC | |
by Hofmator (Curate) on Dec 20, 2006 at 10:45 UTC | |
Re: Sorting result of function call
by kirbyk (Friar) on Dec 20, 2006 at 17:09 UTC | |
Re: Sorting result of function call
by petdance (Parson) on Dec 20, 2006 at 15:56 UTC |