Re: [FWP] Copying hashes

[sthoenna@efn.org (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)]

In article <20000131121709.A31100@pimlott.ne.mediaone.net>,
Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.ne.mediaone.net> wrote:
>People have discussed allowing
>
>push %$self, %$r;  # keys in %$r override keys in %$self
>
>or
>
>unshift %$self, %$r;  # keys in %$self override keys in %$r
>
>I like it.

AFAIR, when this last came up on cplmoderated, the consensus was that
it would be better for perl to recognize "%hash = %hash, LIST" and
optimize it than to introduce new syntax.  Someone did come up with
a patch to implement the push thing, though.

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