New Group proposed: subs (was Re: named parameters)

[Uri Guttman]

named parameters seem to be a popular item. i haven't seen much more
than a simple example syntax. how would the named params map onto or
modify @_? would the equivilent perl5 code just be

        sub func {
                my( $foo, @bar ) = @_ ;
                blah ;
        }

becomes:

        sub func( $foo, @bar ) {
                blah ;
        }

are we looking for lexical and pass by value params? what if any type
checking (another popular subject) will be applied? what will be the
state of @_ afterwards?

it looks like typechecking and named params should fork off into a subs
subgroup. all of you with an itch to write an rfc, here is your chance.

uri

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