Re: RFC 168 (v1) Built-in functions should be functions

[Piers Cawley]

Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> >I intend to extend the parameter lists RFC to cover optional
> >(non-tailing) arguments. 
> 
> Will this include having typed variadic functions, allowing you, for
> example, to say something like
> 
>     This function takes any number of arrays, all passed by reference.
> 
> I keep thinking of a * or a ... to say "repeat the previous thing",
> but that's stepping on other toes.

Doesn't that tend to lead us in the direction of pack madness where we
end up with yet another 'sub language' within perl. We've already got
pack specifiers and regexen and the 'old' prototyping stuff. I'm not
arguing *against* these things you understand, I'm just vaguely
worried. 

-- 
Piers