On 14-08-22 01:18 PM, Andrew Beverley wrote:
On Fri, 2014-08-22 at 13:25 +0100, Aaron Crane wrote: [...]
That said, I do understand why someone would want to be able to get a list of all the values for a given parameter name. Instead of changing the predictable behaviour of param(), I'd suggest adding a new routine that does precisely what you want, perhaps along these lines:
sub param_list { my ($name) = @_; croak "param_list() must be called in list context" if !wantarray; my $value = param($name) // []; return ref $value eq 'ARRAY' ? @$value : $value; }
+1 from me - that would be really useful.
Indeed, and Aaron speaks wisdom. Better have a new 'param_list' (or 'param_array'?) and leave the current 'param' alone. That should makes everyone happy.
Should I raise an issue/pull request?
Please do! Joy, `/anick