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From:
Kent Fredric
Date:
October 7, 2016 01:24
Subject:
Re: Extend the fat comma to deal with undef
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On 7 October 2016 at 10:20, Sam Kington <sam@illuminated.co.uk> wrote:
> does more than just mean you don’t have to quote the lhs; it makes sure that the things you thought would be in pairs, actually were in pairs.

Have you tried PerlX::Maybe as an alternative?

https://v1.metacpan.org/pod/PerlX::Maybe

As far as I can tell, this solves all the problems you're asking for:

- Still uses left-side-quoting
- Enforces scalar context on right operand ( I think ... )
- Removes both the key and value if the value if undef

But is clever enough to not need new core functionality or more abuse
of punctuation.

-- 
Kent

KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL
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