Re: RFC195: Do not remove 'chop' PLEASE!

[John Porter]

Uri Guttman wrote:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Why does it work that way?
> 
> people wanted access the the actual values of a hash when doing
>       foreach ( values %hash )
> so they can mung them. 

Yes; but the question isn't really "why", it's "how".
Apparently chop() is specialized internally to detect the
hashness of its argument, in a way that can't be expressed
by a prototype.

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John Porter

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