pass me another split, sergeant, this one's elfed

[perlmonger]

[Poll #1119627]

[ ETA that this is an abstract question, not an invitation for a language war, though go ahead and have one if you must ]

Comments

[spride.livejournal.com]

Right, but in that case it's hardly $LANGUAGE's fault that XMLhttp responds with an empty string in certain cases and a serialized array in others. Can't you fix the XMLHttp response to hand you a consistent return every time?

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

What's the serialised form of an empty array? :)

[spride.livejournal.com]

If the standard form is [nnn,nnn,nnn,nnn] then [,,,]