Empty Hash Values

[Dave Hodgkinson]

On 14 Apr 2009, at 18:16, Matt Lawrence wrote:

> Jasper wrote:
>> Adrian and I had a tiny chat about this in work, and he decided that
>> subs that return a scalar should return undef explicitly (if they are
>> just returning), and those that return a list should return.
>>
>> At the time I thought it seemed very sensible, but I'm on the fence  
>> again.
>>
>> Difficult to retroactively enforce, at any rate.
>>
> Most of the time just returning does what you expect, it's false in  
> every context and undef in scalar context.


And fails PBP for exactly the confusion in previous mails. Plain
return is Just Wrong. Be explicit.

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