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On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:26:22PM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> On Thu 19 Jul 2001 21:05, Craig Milo Rogers <rogers@ISI.EDU> wrote:
> > >To clamp down on a hash and disallow access to nonexistant keys:
> > > clamp %hash, 1
> > >
> > >To unclamp:
> > > clamp %hash, 0
> > >
> > >To query
> > > my $clamped = clamp %hash;
> >
> > clamp %hash;
> > unclamp %hasn;
> > my $clampishness = clamped %hash;
>
> Which would make Jeffrey's other example very tedious:
>
> my $prev = clamp %$ref, 0;
> $ref->{NewKey} = 1;
> clamp %$ref, $prev;
> =>
> my $prev = clamped %$ref;
> unclamp %$ref;
> $ref->{NewKey} = 1;
> $prev and clamp %$ref;
>
> Better? Don't think so.
But it would at least be consistent with tie, tied, untie
And IMO consistency matters.
Graham.
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