[tpm] Stupid question time!

[Uri Guttman]

>>>>> "SF" == Shaun Fryer <sfryer at sourcery.ca> writes:

  SF> The most common example would be creating a hash which I'm
  SF> populating with values, and don't want a given key to exist() if
  SF> the right hand side is undef.

  SF> my %foo;
  SF> $foo{bar} = $baz if $baz;

well, that doesn't check for undef, just truth. add defined in there if
you are checking for undef.

if you are populating a whole hash from another one (as in adding or
setting options with defaults) there are better ways than doing it one
at a time. i won't put code in here unless you ask about needing such a
beast. you can do several neat tricks with hash overrides, slices, map,
etc.

  SF> In this case...

  SF> $foo{bar} = $baz // undef;

  SF> ...while interesting, isn't appropriate.

your original if modifier is about the best you can do for a scalar
check.

uri

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