Re: looking for a good idiom: return this if this is true

thatroutine() =~ /(.+)/s and return $1;
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Obviously, whether or not this technique will work depends on the kinds of values the function returns.

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Re^2: looking for a good idiom: return this if this is true by cosimo (Hermit) on Mar 08, 2005 at 07:33 UTC
Sorry, no offense, but this looks really terrible to me... Why on earth do you want to fire up a regex matching here? Probably this has also an interesting side effect: it could convert a "numeric" scalar into a "string" scalar. No good.	[reply]
Re^3: looking for a good idiom: return this if this is true by jdporter (Paladin) on Mar 08, 2005 at 14:38 UTC
I'm not saying it's good, but it does answer the OP, somewhat, and it's very short. ...it could convert a "numeric" scalar into a "string" scalar. No good. If you think such conversions are inherently bad, then Perl probably isn't the language for you.	[reply]