On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, M.W. Koskamp wrote:
> > my $option = @ARGV ? shift : <DEFAULT VALUE>;
>
> Above option only works for 1 parameter tho (and commandline arguments).
> For function calls i like to use 'named parameters' by accepting a hash of
> options.
Well, yeah, but the topic *was* command-line arguments, not function
arguments. You can easily loop through @ARGV, unshifting as you go, until
@ARGV is depleted and default values assigned.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
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