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On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 2:39 PM Felipe Gasper <felipe@felipegasper.com>
wrote:
> Attaching metadata to plain scalars could be powerful. It feels like it
> would encourage âweirdnessâ, but I havenât researched it. I know
> decorator-type things are a common feature in other languages.
>
Side note: there are many awesome things we could do with metadata, if we
could find a decent API. The difference between "uninitialized" and
"undefined" would be amazing. Pseudo-code because I have no idea what an
API would look like:
sub name ($self, ?$name) {
if ( not builtin:uninitialized($name) ) {
# or: builtin:initialized($name) would return true even if
undef
$self->{name} = $name;
}
return $name;
}
That would make it *much easier* to eliminate @_.
Best,
Ovid
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