From 7c12bca644bcbdc39c920290f7819f64d1a45ab4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samantha McVey <samantham@posteo.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 23:26:41 -0700
Subject: Add support for replacing and not appending the array. Add POD6

---
 lib/mergehash.pm6 | 28 ++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

(limited to 'lib')

diff --git a/lib/mergehash.pm6 b/lib/mergehash.pm6
index cc9b9cb..1db7e60 100644
--- a/lib/mergehash.pm6
+++ b/lib/mergehash.pm6
@@ -1,24 +1,32 @@
 use MONKEY;
 augment class Hash {
-    method merge (%b) {
-        hashmerge self, %b;
+    #|Merges one a second hash into the hash the method is called on
+    #|Traverses the full tree, replacing items in the original hash with the
+    #|hash given in the argument. Does not replace positional elements by default,
+    #|and instead appends the items from the supplied hash's array to the original
+    #| hash's array. Use :no-append-array to replace arrays and positionals instead
+    #|The object type of positionals is not retained and instead becomes an Array type
+    method merge (%b; Bool:D :$no-append-array = False) {
+        hashmerge self, %b, :$no-append-array;
     }
-    sub hashmerge (%merge-into, %merge-source) {
+    sub hashmerge (%merge-into, %merge-source, Bool:D :$no-append-array) {
         for %merge-source.keys -> $key {
             if %merge-into{$key}:exists {
                 if %merge-source{$key} ~~ Hash {
-                    hashmerge %merge-into{$key}, %merge-source{$key};
+                    hashmerge %merge-into{$key}, %merge-source{$key}, :$no-append-array;
                 }
                 elsif %merge-source{$key} ~~ Positional {
-                    my @a;
-                    for %merge-into{$key}.list {
-                        @a.push: $_;
+                    if $no-append-array {
+                        %merge-into{$key} = %merge-source{$key};
                     }
-                    for %merge-source{$key}.list {
-                        @a.push: $_;
+                    else {
+                        my @a;
+                        @a.push: $_ for %merge-into{$key}.list;
+                        @a.push: $_ for %merge-source{$key}.list;
+                        %merge-into{$key} = @a;
                     }
-                    %merge-into{$key} = @a;
                 }
+                # Non-positionals, so strings or Bools or whatever
                 else {
                     %merge-into{$key} = %merge-source{$key};
                 }
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