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Stuff with the Perl Foundation. A couple of patches in the Perl core. A few CPAN modules. That about sums it up.

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Wednesday September 10, 2003
11:04 PM

map bug

[ #14643 ]

This is a bug:

map { "$_" => "$_" } @array

Not only is that a bug, I know how to fix it and I won't have a problem with that again. Unfortunately, when I encountered this, it was strange and mysterious behavior to me. I searched for an explanation. I searched Perlmonks. I Googled. I boggled my fellow programmers. I boggled myself.

The answer, of course, was in perldoc -f map. I should have known better.


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  • I wouldn't call it a bug, it just isn't terribly useful. ;-)

    So what does the 'bugfix' look like?
    • Did you try it? It gives a syntax error, presumably because perl thinks the braces are indicating an anonymous hashref (which would need a following comma) rather than a block. Getting rid of the quotes around the first $_ is one way to fix it. Maybe it's not a bug (it is more or less documented in perlfunc), but the rules for the syntax certainly aren't obvious.

    • There are plenty of ways to fix it. Probably the clearest is to wrap the

      "$_" => "$_"

      in parentheses.

      map { ("$_" => "$_") } @array;

      In this case, it doesn't look terribly useful because it's a simplified test case. I discovered this when I and another programmer were being forced to walk symbol tables and pull out the CODE slot of blobs and examine them. I think posting the code we used to do that would have confused things even more :)

      As it stands, better examples are in perldoc and they sh

      • Oh! So I guess this one would have got me as well. It isn't always quite transparent to me when perl considers a pair of curlies constructors for an array-ref or rather for a code-block.
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