On 10/7/01 4:17 AM, Damian Conway wrote: >> Does that mean that in the built-in print, the file handle is the only >> "in-band" argument, and all the actual items to be printed are merely >> adverbs? > > Yep. Although the "in-band"/"out-of-band" distinction is only one of > convention. > > In reality, Perl 6 will merely distinguish between those arguments that > come before a colon (and are bound to parameters before the colon in the > parameter list), and those arguments that come after a colon (and are > bound to parameters after the colon in the parameter list).
Yeah, that works and all, but it kind of kills the nice "adverb" angle. At that point, why not just have an arbitrary number of colons? ;) (I'm kidding! Step away from the keyboard! ;) -John
