This week's Summary

2003-10-28 Thread Piers Cawley
The Perl 6 Summary of the week ending 20031026 Where does the time go? It seems like only yesterday that I was sat hiding Leon Brocard in the first letters of the first 11 body paragraphs of the last summary. Now, here I am, on the train, typing away in a desperate attempt to get th

Re: Alternately named arguments

2003-10-28 Thread Damian Conway
Larry wrote: : >(+$name, +$id) := getinfo(); : : Err, no. Or at least: "Please, No!". ;-) : : That would certainly be a way cool abbreviation, but I suspect it would be : a Very Bad Idea for unary plus to have two unrelated meanings out in the : actual code. I suspect that the "named-only"

Re: Alternately named arguments

2003-10-28 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 12:05:32PM +1100, Damian Conway wrote: : Luke Palmer asked: : >(Or, in this precise case:) : > : >(+$name, +$id) := getinfo(); : : Err, no. Or at least: "Please, No!". ;-) : : That would certainly be a way cool abbreviation, but I suspect it would be : a Very Bad Idea