Re: suppressing __VALUE__ in <autotree>

On May 15, 2004, at 9:32 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> On Fri, 14 May 2004, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> ;-) The above is possible, but why post-process the created struct
>>   when you don't need to put in __VALUE__ at all?
>
> Because <autotree> is a generic feature, and you're asking for
> something very specific.  At least that's my view of it.

I agree. I was able to get what I wanted via this:

$::RD_AUTOACTION = q{
     if ($#item==1 && ($item->isterminal || ref $item[1] ne 'ARRAY')) {
		$return = $item[1];
     } else {
	foreach my $i (keys %item) {
	    if ($i=~ s/(\([\?s]\))$//o) {
		$item{$i} = \@{$item{$i.$1}};
		delete $item{$i.$1};
	    }
	}
	$return = bless \%item, $item[0];
     }
};

which also cleans up the (s) and (?) return names, so I'm happy. It's 
great that prd was do well designed to be customizable. Hopefully, 
$item->isterminal is something that'll stick around for a while.

>
> It's humbling to see the XML::Simple options, for instance, that have
> to deal with collapsing key-value pairs.  Do you really want
> <autotree> to be something that complex?
>
>> I understand the need for it for some applications. But other ones
>> (eg when converting the returned hash to xml via xml::simple) only
>> add a level of unneeded indirection.
>
> Speaking of the devil :)
>

lol

> Ted
>
>

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