# New Ticket Created by  "brian d foy" 
# Please include the string:  [perl #131922]
# in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. 
# <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131922 >


Consider this program which I don't expect to work (and it doesn't compile):

    sub show-the-arguments ( *@args, $i ) {
        put "The arguments are @args[]";
        }

    show-the-arguments( 1, 3, 7 );

The error message says "variadic":

    Cannot put required parameter $i after variadic parameters

But another sort of error uses a different term:

    sub show-the-arguments ( *@args, $i ) {
        put "The arguments are @args[]";
        }

This time the error messages say "slurpy":

    Only one slurpy positional allowed

The docs almost almost always say "slurpy" and the uses of "variadic"
only appear as synonyms next to "slurpy":

* https://github.com/perl6/doc/search?utf8=✓&q=variadic&type=

* https://github.com/perl6/doc/search?utf8=✓&q=slurpy&type=

Reply via email to