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On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Ricardo Signes
> <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote:
> > I am interested in the answers to Yves' questions, and I think that these
> > slices look worth pursuing further. I think there are going to be a lot
> of
> > questions about how they should work at the edges to figure out, but
> given the
> > broad strokes, this is a feature that I would totally use and that seems
> quite
> > sensible.
>
> I find myself missing this feature with some regularity, I would
> really like to have this.
>
> One question I do have: what should it do with nonexistent keys? E.g.
>
> my %first = (a => 1, b => 2);
> my %second = %first{qw/a c/};
>
> Should %second now contain «c => undef», not no c at all? I think I'm
> currently leaning towards the latter, it seems like the more useful
> behavior to me.
>
It's open for discussion. May be it is more useful, but I see both cases in
my code. At this moment code result in «c => undef» and it's consistent
with other slice ops. If only we had op modifiers for such ops like we have
for s/// and m///.
Interesting thought is to make the following work like you want:
my %second = exists %first{qw/a c/};
> Leon
--
Best regards, Ruslan.
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