[San-Diego-pm] Perl Meeting on Monday, May 9th

[Menolly]

On Tue, 10 May 2005, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

>>>>>> "Menolly" == Menolly  <menolly at mib.org> writes:
>
> Menolly>   my %taken;
> Menolly>   @taken{map $_->[0], @{$rd2->{'sth'}->fetchall_arrayref()}} = ();
> Menolly>   my @untaken = grep {!exists $taken{$_->[0]}} @{$rd->{'sth'}->fetchall_arrayref()};
> Menolly>   $testDigest = @untaken[rand(@untaken)]->[0];
>
> I didn't look at the rest, but this last line is illegal syntax.
> It "accidentally" works, but what you're really saying there
> is the same as:
>
>        $testdigest = $untaken[rand @untaken];
>
> And you might as well say what you mean. :)
>
> It will definitely stop working in the future, and is already a
> "warnable" offense, that you would have caught with -w turned on.

Hmm, I thought we _did_ have -w turned on across the board.  But I don't
think your syntax will work; @untaken is an array of arrayrefs; I need
to select a random element from it, dereference that element, and set
$testDigest to the first (and, as it happens, only) element of the
referenced array.  (It's a ref because of DBI; it's a question of where
I place the complexity.)

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