>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. >Personally, I would like to see the >indirect object syntax removed in all contexts, inclusing >this one, and filehandles simply passed as a first argument. I don't know what's happening with indirect objects, but the nastiness whereby you can only use unsubscripted scalars is quite the crock. You know, where you can say print $fh "stuff\n"; and <$fh> But are not (well, in the second you can, but it's wrong) able to say print $fh[$i] "stuff\n"; and <$fh[$i]> Definitely worth a clean-up--at the least. --tom
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