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Some time back, samurai asked if there were any options for incorporating a dash of Perlishness into Java, and at that time the answer was "no". Well with the passage of time that answer has changed, and I am pleased to announce the Perl Idioms for Java project over at Sourceforge.

So far we have implemented foreach, grep, join, map, pop, push, shift, split and unshift, a (very) rudimentary form of autovivication, and a class representing Perl's notion of truth. If only I could convey my glee at the realization that a java.lang.Boolean initialized to "false" is true according to Perl's semantics :^P

We haven't released any files officially, however the source code is available for your perusal under CVS here, and comments on implementation or theoretical points are most welcome. Enjoy!


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