[Templates] trueness of arrrays/hashes

[Andy Wardley]

Andy Wardley wrote:
>Perhaps the best solution is to have a '.size' method which works 
>consistently
>across all data types:
>
>  [% item.size %]    # 1
>  [% hash.size %]    # scalar(keys %$hash)
>  [% list.size %]    # scalar(@$list)
 
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:38:25PM -0500, darren chamberlain wrote:
> How about:
> 
>   $Template::Stash::SCALAR_OPS->{ size } = <same as length>

Yep, that's what I've gone for.  'size' returns length of a scalar, number
of elements in a list, or number of key => value pairs in a hash.

To be appearing in a new developer release near you Real Soon Now...

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