On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 10:40:49AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> Yes, though it's usually been mentioned with respect to things like:
>
> my ($a,$b,$c) is constant = abc();
>
> However, I would personally go with the prefix zone macros before using
> distributed traits, just to get the zone inf
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 07:09:55AM -0800, David Storrs wrote:
: On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 12:18:47PM -0800, Paul wrote:
:
: > I think Larry's accomodating everybody, here.
: > Those of us who want to play with the tinkertoys will probably enjoy
: > the whole box, even the little widgets that take us
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 12:18:47PM -0800, Paul wrote:
> I think Larry's accomodating everybody, here.
> Those of us who want to play with the tinkertoys will probably enjoy
> the whole box, even the little widgets that take us a while to
> identify.
Agreed. But I'd like to keep the identificati
--- David Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:19:20PM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> > I think newbies are going to unquestionably try and put the
> > parameters in the same order as they expect to see the eventual
> > arguments, and be durn confused it doesn't work --
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:19:20PM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> I think newbies are going to unquestionably try and put the parameters
> in the same order as they expect to see the eventual arguments, and be
> durn confused it doesn't work -- I know I would.
[...]
> Dunno. I'm just one dat
On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 09:58 AM, Larry Wall wrote:
: sub foo($x, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +$k) {...}# (2) OK
Fine, you can set @a using positional notation, like push(), in
addition to the notations available to (1). But if you set "k =>",
it has to be before the list, unless you pas
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 06:46:21PM -0800, mlazzaro wrote:
: Luke Palmer wrote:
:
: > The idea is that positional parameters are always a contiguous
: > sequence in the argument list. If it looked like this:
: >
: > sub foo($x, ?$y, +$k, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) {...}
: >
: > Then one might presume
Luke Palmer wrote:
> The idea is that positional parameters are always a contiguous
> sequence in the argument list. If it looked like this:
>
> sub foo($x, ?$y, +$k, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) {...}
>
> Then one might presume to call it like:
>
> foo($x, $y, $k, 1, 2, 3);
>
> Which they ca
> When calling a sub that has both named params and a slurpy list, the
> slurpy list should always come last. If a sub has both a slurpy hash
> and a slurpy list, the slurpy list should still always come last. You
> simply can't credibly have anything after the slurpy list, or it'll be
> slur
A simple question, I hope...
From A6, "Calling Subroutines", comes the following:
multi push(@array, +$how, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) {...}
push(@a, how => 'rapidly', 1,2,3); # OK
push(@a, 1,2,3); # WRONG, $how == 1!
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