Re: delete local $a[$idx] - delete local $h{$key}

> 2009/7/25 Vincent Pit <perl@profvince.com>:
>   
>> I've just pushed a "deletelocal" branch to the repository that contains
>> the implementation of "delete local $a[$idx] - delete local $h{$key}".
>> This syntax was actually valid for a long time (at least since 5.6) but
>> didn't do anything. Following a suggestion from Ricardo, I've made it
>> equivalent "delete $a[$idx]; local $a[$idx]", except that it returns the
>> value before the localization.
>>     
>
> That's not really the equivalent, since $a[$idx] is restored afterwards, right?
>   
Yes. I've sent an amended message just after this one, but the list has
a lot of traffic those days so it was easily missed. Just to restate it,

    delete local $a[$idx]

is equivalent to

    do { my $val = $a[$idx]; local $a[$idx]; delete $a[$idx]; $val }

> This is a nice new feature and the implementation looks neat.
>
> Not sure where to document this -- probably with the local() main docs.
>   

I'm gonna add some doc for it to the branch then.

Thanks for unwarnocking it.

Vincent.

• delete local $a[$idx] - delete local $h{$key} by Vincent Pit
• Re: delete local $a[$idx] - delete local $h{$key} by Rafael Garcia-Suarez
• Re: delete local $a[$idx] - delete local $h{$key} by Vincent Pit
• Re: delete local $a[$idx] - delete local $h{$key} by Vincent Pit