Em Ter, 2009-01-06 às 11:28 -0800, Jon Lang escreveu:
> Of course, that's only a third of the problem. What should people
> expect with each of these:
Hmm... I think that takes the discussion to another level, and the
question is:
"what does a capture returns when coerced to a context it doesn't
provide a value for?"
The easy answer would be undef, empty array and empty hash, but that
doesn't DWIM at all.
The hard answer is DWIM, and that can be:
1) in item context, without an invocant
a) if only one positional argument, return it
b) if only one named argument, return it as a pair
c) if several positional args, but no named args,
return an array
d) if several named args, but no positional args,
return a hash
e) if no args at all, return undefined Object
f) return itself otherwise
2) in list context, without positional arguments
a) if one or more named arguments,
return a list of pairs
b) return an empty list otherwise
3) in hash context, without named arguments
a) if there are positional arguments,
return a hash taking key,value.
if an odd number of positional arguments,
last key has an undef Object as the
value and issue a warning.
c) return an empty hash otherwise
daniel
