SPUG: Old biased arguments against defined-or operator

[DeRykus, Charles E]

> As promised at the meeting, here're the arguments advanced against the

> defined-or operator (orignally proposed as ??, hookhook, now //) that 
> delayed it for so very long.

> Watch out for the strawmen; they come on thick and fast:

> http://www.perl.com/tchrist/defop/defconfaq.html
> http://www.perl.com/tchrist/defop/defprofaq.text


Interestingly, Larry's 'first' suggestion is now available in the core: 

   use List::Util qw/first/; 

   $var  = first { defined } $foo, $bar, $baz;


   : Larry has not spoken on this matter in about a year. Some quotes 
   : of his from back then are from 
   : http://www.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=393749501&fmt=text 

   : I'd much rather see something on the grep/sort/map pattern: 

   :     first {defined} $foo, $bar, $baz 

   : That's much more readable to me, and doesn't lose the really
important 
   : bit of information down at the end of a block that might be
arbitrarily 
   : long.


-- 
Charles DeRykus 

-----Original Message-----
From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes [mailto:sthoenna at efn.org] 
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Subject: SPUG: Old biased arguments against defined-or operator


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