Thanks!

2 questions tho:

  1. > looking up an array in scalar context

    Yeah, but I was under the impression the patch was supposed to improve Boolean context. And several sources claim that Perl is internally subdividing scalar context into Boolean, string and (various) numeric contexts.

  2. > Serializers tend to struggle with such things

    What some programmers seem to expect is that the initial type (i.e. at time of assignment) is preserved.

    Was it ever discussed to add a flag "initial_type" to scalar vars, which ...

    • is updated with each assignment only
    • could be queried via a Scalar::Util::initial_type() function
    • update serializer to use initial_type()

    ...???

    And if it was already discussed, what are the reasons against?

Cheers Rolf
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In reply to Re^3: Reason for this discrepancy with scalar? by LanX
in thread Reason for this discrepancy with scalar? by kikuchiyo

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