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On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 03:50:56 -0700, davem wrote:
> A downside of &PL_sv_zero is that if assigned to a variable, that
> variable
> gets int, num and string values rather than just an int value.
Why does that need to be the case? Why cannot PL_sv_zero have just the SvIOK flag on?
Does it matter that \(%h && $foo) now returns a reference to a read-only value when %h is empty? (If so, that can be solved by turning on PADTMP on PL_sv_zero.)
> Also, index() doesn't return a boolean value, but for no match it
> returns
> -1. So for code like
>
> if (index(...) != -1) { ... }
>
> optimise away the OP_CONST and the OP_EQ and flag the index op to
> return a
> boolean value.
index(...) >= 0 is also quite common.
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