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On 25/01/2008, Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> wrote:
> * David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com> [2008-01-25 00:50]:
> > alert me when I give map an arrayref instead of an array
>
> Sorry, no. I've passed complex data structures to `map` more
> times than I care to remember. This wouldn't be a warning, it
> would be a nag screen.
>
> > $ perl -le 'use warnings; print join "|", map {$_ + 2} [ 1..6 ]'
> > 268504834
>
> This would be caught by the stricture that MJD proposed a few
> weeks ago, where stringifying or numifying references is
> forbidden. That would trap a bunch of hard-to-find mistakes I've
> made while almost never getting in my way. Let me start a new
> thread…
ST is one place where we could really use python style tuples.
It is slowed down quite a bit by the construction cost of
manufacturing loads of tiny little arrays. If we had tuples we could
make things like ST much more efficient.
Yves
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