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Re: Query Parameters
From:
Zefram via perl5-porters
Date:
December 2, 2019 14:09
Subject:
Re: Query Parameters
Message ID:
20191202140859.ffuyd3qqju3yy343@fysh.org
Dave Mitchell wrote:
> ?$x peek ahead to the next arg
> ??$x peek ahead and see if there is a next arg
Poor Huffman coding: the latter will be used more often. I think the
peek-ahead cases should (all, consistently) have a second character after
the "?" and before the sigil, and the predicate case should only have one
"?".
>They cannot be a placeholder: i.e. these aren't legal: ??$, ?$, ?@, ?%.
Seems to me that those should be legal no-ops. Except for the hash one,
which isn't even a no-op, because it would enforce even parity of the
remaining argument list.
-zefram