On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Trey Harris wrote: : In a message dated Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Sean O'Rourke writes: : > - Implicit currying variables ($^a etc) are in. I thought I had read : > somewhere they were gone in favor of closure args, but people seem : > to be using them, and they're not hard to put in. : : My understanding is that they still exist as placeholder variables, but : no longer implicitly curry. I.e., : : {$^a + $^b} : : is a synonym for : : -> $a, $b {$a + $b}
That is correct. Currying will be done via some explicit method. Sentiment at yapc favored something resembling: &incr := &add.assuming(x => 1); Larry