Re: How do I get a reference to a builtin function?

I'd say:

my %op = (
  'toupper'=>sub{uc(@_)},
  ...
);
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instead of shift

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Re: Answer: How do I get a reference to a builtin function? by moritz (Cardinal) on Dec 08, 2009 at 11:25 UTC
Please test your code before you offer it as a solution: `$ perl -wE 'my $t = sub { uc(@_)}; say $t->("foo")' 1` [download] uc has a prototype which forces scalar context, so `uc(@_)` evaluates to the number of elements in @ (upper-cased). Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.	[reply] [d/l] [select]