Mailinglist Archive: yast-devel (47 mails)

[Jiří Suchomel <jsuchome@xxxxxxx>]

On pá 3. října 2008, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> Hi!
>
> During bug fixing, Jozo came with interesting observation: the default
> behavior of 'remove' builtin for maps if a map does not contain key, is
> strange.
>
> Documentation:
> "Remove the value with the key KEY from a map. Returns nil if the key is
> invalid."
>
> The definition for list is similar. So, this means the following code will
> break quite a bit, if "this key" does not exist.
>
> a = remove( a, "this key" )
>
> The proposal is to change the behavior to return the original (unchanged)
> map/list for CODE11 (openSUSE >= 11.1). Seems code in SVN seems to be quite
> OK (either uses haskey() or is safe by other means, or broken just because
> of this behavior ;-))
>
> Any comments or objections?

See also bug 396697

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