Re: Optimizing length() in boolean context? (was: Re: Strings in boolean context - a mistake?)

* Lasse Makholm <lass...@gmail.com> [2015-08-27 23:05]:
> I don't remember ever having written the second form. I too favor> words over punctuation - in this case even more so, as I often end up> with:>>     @nonempty = grep { defined and length } @strings;>> Which reads really well IMO.

If you are supporting pre-5.12 perls then yes. But on perls newer than
that the `defined` check is redundant, so the code repeats itself.

Regards,
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