[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damian Conway) writes:
> You underestimate your ability to communicate, Simon. I understood
> exactly what you wanted: pass a closure to a method without needing
> to wrap the closure in parens.
Fair enough.
> I was explaining why I think we ought to keep the parens. And that is
> because, without them, we can't tell how many arguments to pass to
> the method.
Not if it is specified that a block comes after the final
argument. But then I am aware that I'm possibly subconsciously trying
to make Perl 6 look like a certain other language.
> And because the default ("pass all of 'em") isn't a good
> enough answer.
So will we need parens around the arguments of the indirect object :
form?
Also, how is this different from the problems Perl 5 currently has - and
solves - in determining which arguments to pass?
--
In this talk, I would like to speculate a little, on ... the development
of intelligent life. I shall take this to include the human race, even
though much of its behaviour throughout history has been pretty
stupid... - Stephen Hawking
