>>>>> "BD" == Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BD> Fine. In Perl 5 we have a restriction on when you can and can't use BD> parens on a subroutine--you can omit them when the sub is predeclared, BD> and Perl will assume that no magic is going on. I see nothing wrong BD> with this rule. but you are conflating plain subs and method calls. perl6 can deal with predeclared subs and fixed argument signatures at compile time like perl5 can. but the same is not true in either 5 nor 6 with method calls as they can only be looked up at run time. the arguments passed to a method can be checked then against know method signatures and maybe multimethods could (dunno who or when that is decided. i think the class has to be declared as having multimethods) be invoked based on the arguments. so the need for parens on method calls is there if you have any possible compile time ambiguity of how many arguments to pass in. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com ----- Stem and Perl Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding ---- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org
