On 12/22/05 10:14 AM, Perrin Harkins wrote:
>> The docs are wrong, but I've changed my mind on this a few times. Opinions?
>
> I hate wantarray. It's a constant source of bugs and makes testing more
> complicated. I prefer methods that consistently return the same thing.
>
> As an example, I've had to debug problems like this for my co-workers a
> few times with Class::DBI:
>
> my @foo = Bar->search(baz => 1) || die "no baz found";
>
> That will not give the list context return, but rather the scalar
> return, which is an iterator in Class::DBI. This is just the tip of the
> iceberg.
Yeah, that's basically why it unconditionally returns a reference now. But
I also like to be able to do stuff like this:
foreach my $prod (Product::Manager->get_products(...))
{
...
}
Hrm. Any more opinions or ideas? Is there a happy medium?
-John
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