Re: Best practices for passing in function arguments?

The two alternatives are not equivalent, so choose whichever matches most closely to the useful parameters of your function.

Dum Spiro Spero

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Re^2: Best practices for passing in function arguments? by andrewkl (Novice) on Dec 09, 2015 at 19:40 UTC
Hi, I guess my question is: Does it make sense to pass in an array that contains only one item (a ref to a hash). That array will always have only 1 item. Or is it better to directly pass in the hash array (Scenario 2) Thanks --Andrew	[reply]
Re^3: Best practices for passing in function arguments? by GotToBTru (Prior) on Dec 09, 2015 at 19:44 UTC
Will the subroutine ever be expected to perform its task on a list of hashes? Then an array would make sense. Otherwise it seems a needless complication. Which is repeating what I said before. It's your subroutine; YOU figure out how you want to use it. Dum Spiro Spero	[reply]
Re^4: Best practices for passing in function arguments? by andrewkl (Novice) on Dec 09, 2015 at 21:29 UTC
Hi, The processing of the list of hashes is handled in bar(), not foo(). I think scenario 2 is makes more sense, but just wanted to see what others think. Thanks --Andrew	[reply]