Re: wantarray() should be named wantlist() (was Re: date interface (was Re: perl6 requirements, on bootstrap))

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:02:44AM -0400, Tad McClellan wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:53:02AM +0100, Hildo Biersma wrote:
> 
> > If functions could distinguish between
> > 'wantarray' and 'wanthahs' this would be easy to do. 
> 
> 
> Due to the recent "rename local()" and "can't return an array"
> discussions here, we should also consider "rename wantarray()"
> as well.
> 
> It should be named wantlist()

Well, perhaps we should rename it to whatdoyouwant()  :-)
Or perhaps you prefer the shortened version, want()?

if    (want eq 'hash')   { return %hash }
elsif (want eq 'array')  { return @{$hash{vector}} }
elsif (want eq 'scalar') { return $hash{vector]->[0] }
elsif (want eq 'handle') { return $hash{filehandle} }

/me patiently awaits all those RFCs (or are we calling them PCRs now,
and won't that confuse the biotechnologists?) from Damian Conway.

-Scott
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