Re^4: Benchmark of hash emptiness test

Pardon my ignorance (I don't know much about the perl internals) but I was under the impression that there was something like boolean context. So shouldn't the hash in if (%hash) {} be able to tell that it was used in boolean context and thus react accordingly? This should then be an easy patch, just defining a different behaviour for %hash in boolean (in contrast to scalar) context.

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Re^5: Benchmark of hash emptiness test by demerphq (Chancellor) on Nov 10, 2006 at 13:02 UTC
Well there is no G_BOOL defined, so i dont think internally we have a boolean context. I think what you are thinking of is overloading, which has a bool conversion operator, but the scalarification of a hash in a conditional doesn't involve overloading. --- $world=~s/war/peace/g	[reply]