On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:15:15AM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote:
>       Perhaps using \ in the signature to indicate p-b-r is not the
> best...it could confuse people into thinking that they will need to
> manually dereference the variable, which they shouldn't need to do.
> 
>       Is there a way to do this now?  If not, will there be a way in
> Perl6?

I think the syntax is now 

        sub load_date ($filename is rw; $version) { ... }

Changes to $filename within load_data() affect the caller.

-Scott
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