[Catalyst] Re: Mason view hackers (and other views), PING

[A. Pagaltzis]

Hi Matt,

* Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> [2007-05-19 21:15]:
> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:55:15PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> > * Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> [2007-05-19 19:45]:
> > > comp_root => do { my $root = $c->config->{root}; "${root}"; },
> > > 
> > > would be better, I think.
> > 
> > Why `do`? Wouldn’t this be just as good?
> > 
> >     comp_root => "" . $c->config->{root},
> 
> Yes, but IMO less explicit.

I don’t see any difference. Both rely on the reader knowing that
a particular operation implicitly stringifies, whether that is
concatenation or interpolation

Explicit would be something like

    comp_root => map { eval { $_->stringify } or $_ } $c->config->{root},

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