On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 08:30:04PM -0700, Jonathan Lang wrote:
: Larry Wall wrote:
: > Jonathan Lang wrote:
: > : How do you define new adverbs, and how does a subroutine go about
: > : accessing them?
: >
: > Adverbs are just optional named parameters. Most of the magic is in
: > the call syntax.
:
: Ah. So every part of a Capture Object has an alternate call syntax:
:
: act $foo, @list, bar => 'baz';
:
: is the same as
:
: @list ==> $foo.act:bar('baz');
:
: right?
You might have to write that
@list ==> $foo.act :bar('baz');
I think or the colon on the method would be taken as starting a list.
I dunno, depends on whether .act: is considered a "longest token",
I guess. I could argue it the other way as well, and :bar is a longest
token compared to :.
: (And if this is the case, the one capability that the adverb notation
: provides that the more traditional named parameter notation doesn't
: have is a way to let a particular key to exist without being defined.)
Without being specified, anyway. The default values are always defined.
Larry
