Re: bad code to good golf

>>>>> "MGS" == Michael G Schwern <[email protected]> writes:

  MGS> Uri Guttman wrote:
  >> is there any guarantee of evaluation order in arg lists? will the
  >> bless/splice always be executed before the pop?

  MGS> I believe it is undefined, so it's not recommended that you do
  MGS> anything order dependent in the argument list.  But it is stable.

so that breaks the pop solutions IMO. it may not always work in all perl
versions.

  >> my longer but amusing answer is this:
  >> 
  >> sub new {
  >> bless{reverse%{{reverse@_}}}
  >> }
  >> 
  >> it is not warning safe and it leaves '' => CLASS in the hash. but it has
  >> no temp vars, calls to splice or shift.

  MGS> You fell into the trap!  That's an improper constructor, can you tell us why?

i forgot the shift of the class arg which i had on my test code. it was
a paste error. and it makes it even longer.

uri

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