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in thread Modules to reduce syntax?

>Pyrrhic victory

perhaps a tad hyperbolic? OP asked for reduction in syntax (I read it as more readable) - not even "less typing"; but the only thing I can assuredly tell you is that I tend to use this module a lot nowadays. And it is true that eliminating a paired set of curlies in exchange for some dereference syntax is worth it to me; and "overhead" (whatever that means to the reader) is generally never something I even look at. My optimizations happen on the algorithmic or complexity level; IOW I avoid nesting loops in favor of ... hashes (and references to such) :-) In any case, I should have added a YMMV.

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Re^4: Modules to reduce syntax?
by LanX (Saint) on Dec 27, 2021 at 18:54 UTC
    > perhaps a tad hyperbolic?

    well you said

    > > > The reduction in typing and file size from these 2 characters quickly adds up.

    and that's not the case from the second level on.

    This can be easily overlooked, hence my remark.

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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      The -recurse option to h2o creates accessors for all levels of hash; though I have not tried to see if it works for something like, 
        my $ref = {
    foo => { bar => [ baz => 1, herp => 2, derp => 3 ], },
  };

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      Or maybe I don't know what you mean by, from the second level on.
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        > Or maybe I don't know what you mean by, from the second level on.

        Your first level deref with H2O

        $ref->foo

        is 2 characters shorter than

        $ref->{foo}

        but that's it!

        No more gains for further levels

        $ref->foo->$bar->baz->bla °

        vs

        $ref->{foo}{$bar}{baz}{bla}

        is still only 2 characters better.

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
        Wikisyntax for the Monastery

        °) hypothesized, I've never used or tested this.

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