Thanks Timo,
I was, in part, aware of this, but didn't have the full knowledge/details
as you've explained it.
Thanks!
On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 6:18 AM Timo Paulssen <t...@wakelift.de> wrote:
> Hi Paul and Todd,
>
> just a little extra info: the limitation for nameds to come after
> positionals is only for declarations of signatures.
>
> Usage of subs/methods as well as capture literals (which you don't use
> often, i imagine, so feel free to disregard) allow you to mix nameds and
> positionals freely; it will handle named parameters that are put between
> positionals as if they were after the positional parameters.
>
> > sub abcdefg($b, $f, $g, :$a, :$c, :$e) { say $a, $b, $c, $e }
> &abcdefg
> > abcdefg(1, a => 5, 2, c => 99, 100, e => 1024)
> 51991024
>
> Most cases where I wanted named parameters early in the call was when
> there was something big in the call, for example if a sub takes a block and
> a few options, i prefer to put the options before the block, so they are
> visible at a glance rather than after scrolling. I suppose this mirrors how
> regex modifiers (like :ignorecase / :i, :global, etc) have been moved to
> the front of regexes.
>
> Hope that's interesting
> - Timo
> On 10/02/2020 07:48, Paul Procacci wrote:
>
> Named parameters must come after all positional parameters.
> Your example subroutine is invalid for this reason, while the following
> would be fine:
>
> sub abcdefg( $b, $f, $g, :$a, :$c, :$e)
>
> abcdefg("position1", "position2", "position3", :e("named_e"),
> :a("named_a"), :c("named_c"));
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 6:24 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <
> perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2020-02-09 14:53, Paul Procacci wrote:
>> > subchdir(IO() $path, :$d=True, :$r, :$w, :$x-->IO::Path:D)
>>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> What I wanted to see is how something liek
>>
>> sub abcdefg( :$a, $b, :$c, :$e, $f, $g )
>>
>> would be called
>>
>> -T
>>
>
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