Re^7: When every microsecond counts: Parsing subroutine parameters

Brilliant. Yet another clever way that Perl takes care of things automagically.

I hadn't realized that, because I wasn't thinking Perlishly enough. Thank you.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

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Re^8: When every microsecond counts: Parsing subroutine parameters by blazar (Canon) on May 19, 2008 at 18:08 UTC
I personally believe there's been some misunderstanding. Granted, I'm glad to receive your thanks, but I can't remember having pointed out any "clever way that Perl takes care of things automagically" in the post you're replying to. Did I? `--` If you can't understand the incipit, then please check the IPB Campaign.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^9: When every microsecond counts: Parsing subroutine parameters by talexb (Chancellor) on May 19, 2008 at 18:57 UTC
Yes, you did. I was complaining about having to call a sub as follows `foo(100,undef,undef,undef,"bar");` [download] when in fact this can be shortened to `foo(100,,,,"bar");` [download] However, as was pointed out by some kind monk, you're left to worry about counting commas, since `,,,,` looks a lot like `,,,,,` from a distance. Alex / talexb / Toronto "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^10: When every microsecond counts: Parsing subroutine parameters by holli (Abbot) on May 19, 2008 at 19:25 UTC
Reread the post. `C:\camelbox\bin>perl -e "sub foo{ print join '#',@_; } foo(1,,,,,2);" 1#2` [download] holli, /regexed monk/	[reply] [d/l]
Re^10: When every microsecond counts: Parsing subroutine parameters by blazar (Canon) on May 19, 2008 at 19:35 UTC
when in fact this can be shortened to No, it can't! I was saying that sometimes I would like it to. Apologies if I didn't make it clear enough. `--` ~~If you can't understand the incipit, then please check the IPB Campaign.~~	[reply] [d/l]


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