On 12/25/05, Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> foo(
> named_arg := $value,
> other_arg := $value,
> );
I'll point out that Joe's argument is completely moot, because you're
not using $s on the named arguments. As a matter of fact, we could
double up the := symbol as both
Joe Gottman skribis 2005-12-24 19:59 (-0500):
> sub foo($named_arg) {say $named_arg;}
> my $named_arg = 1;
> my $value = 2;
> foo($named_arg := $value); #Does this bind my $named_arg to $value?
Because the := is used in .(), it is not binding in the current scope,
but in the called subroutine. In
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 11:25:43PM +1100, Andrew Savige wrote:
: Apologies if I'm Mr Magoo, but I did a bit of a search on this just now, and
: uncovered little more than a pithy quote from Piers Cawley in:
:
: http://dev.perl.org/perl6/list-summaries/2005/p6summary.2005-07-05.html
:
: asserting
> -Original Message-
> From: Juerd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 7:26 PM
> To: perl6-language@perl.org
> Subject: binding arguments
>
> Merry Christmas to you all!
>
> We use => for pairs, but also for something very different: named
> argument binding. Y
Merry Christmas to you all!
We use => for pairs, but also for something very different: named
argument binding. Yes, pairs are used for that, but that introduces
problems. The most important problem, that pairs sometimes have to be
passed, and sometimes have to be named arguments, is fixed with a
On 12/24/05, Andrew Savige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm curious to know if the Perl 6 design team fully endorse a change from the
> Perl 5 "the (single) implementation *is* the specification" model to a
> "multiple implementations are good, m'kay, but from a single (detailed and
> precise) spec
Apologies if I'm Mr Magoo, but I did a bit of a search on this just now, and
uncovered little more than a pithy quote from Piers Cawley in:
http://dev.perl.org/perl6/list-summaries/2005/p6summary.2005-07-05.html
asserting that "Multiple implementations are good, m'kay".
If anyone can point me to
