[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Rafael Garcia-Suarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> :On 8/18/05, Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> :> This recently bit me:
> :>
> :> $ perl -wle 'print 42 if defined($h{foo}++)'
> :> 42
> :>
> :> Now, before thousands of you reach for the flamethrowers, yes, I know
> :> - now - that this is documented. I found it in perlop right where it
> :> ought to be:
> :>
> :> | undef is always treated as numeric, and in particular is changed to 0
> :> | before incrementing (so that a post-increment of an undef value will
> :> | return 0 rather than undef).
> :
> :This was documented by Hugo as change 19014 :
> :http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?patch=19014
> :Hugo, any comment on this ?
>
> I'd much rather the behaviour were as Peter requests, but my synopsis
> in the thread covers my reasoning.
Yes, that makes sense to me as well.
As Jan Dubois put it, "Does the numeric context change the
value that the variable had retroactively?"
