> From: Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagalt...@gmx.de>
> Subject: Re: seeking golfing advice
> To: fwp@perl.org
> Date: Friday, May 18, 2012, 5:29 AM
> * Steve Fink <sph...@gmail.com>
> [2012-05-18 10:25]:
> > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis
> <pagalt...@gmx.de>
> wrote:
> > > * Mike Erickson <m...@quidquam.com>
> [2012-05-16 15:45]:
> > > > If you don't care about order, but just want
> those elements, you
> > > > can also do:
> > > >
> > > > keys%{{@a}}
> > >
> > > There is more than order that gets lost. If you
> use `keys` you also
> > > get everything back stringified – undefs are
> lost and references
> > > break. If you use `values` these problems go
> away… except that to
> > > get the odd-index elements from it you have to
> `reverse` the array,
> > > at which point a not-especially-golfed grep is
> shorter.
> >
> > So you'd want
> >
> > values%{{1,@a}}
> >
> > then
>
> D’oh!
D::oh is right. You get an unwanted extra undef at the end of such list.
