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Monday June 16, 2003

06:43 PM

[ #12888 ]

In Perl6 (and 5.10!) you can:

%hash{$key} //= $something

Which checks for definedness rather than truth, but what we are missing is checking for existance. I propose the cunning %% operator:

%hash{$key} %%= $something

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