sub record{
        ($value, $max, $min)=@_;
        if($value>=$min && $value<=$max){
                return{                     #returning an anonymous ha
+sh
                        value=>$value,
                        max  =>$max,
                        min  =>$min,
                        };
                }else{
                        return;
                        }
        }
        
$myrecord=record(100,1000,10);
print $myrecord->{max};

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I find this code worrisome because record sometimes returns a hashref and sometimes doesn't, but you don't check which has happened before treating the return value as a hashref. If you haven't use strict'd, you won't hear anything about this; you'll just see corruption later when you try to use $myrecord->{max}. I would strongly recommend 
$myrecord = record(100, 1000, 10) or die "That's odd";

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(probably with some more informative error message)—as well as use strict'ing, of course.

By the way, the ternary ?: operator allows you to avoid multiple return statements. In particular, if you did always want to return a hashref, then you could write: 

return $value >= $min && $value <= $max ?
    {
        value => $value,
        max => $max,
        min => $min
    }
:
    {};

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Normally I'd recommend this, but, in this case, it would make you lose the ability to test the return value for falsity.

UPDATE: Oops, sorry, <code> ends with </code>, not </c>. :-)

In reply to Re: Simulating user defined data types by JadeNB
in thread Simulating user defined data types by biohisham

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