On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:17:22PM -0800, Brent Dax wrote: > Jonathan Scott Duff: > # > Where we can see *at runtime* that $quux is too many > # arguments, we can > # > just append it to the end of bar()'s return value. (This > # would only > # > happen when there were no parentheses.) > # > # Seems to me that you just gave a really good argument for > # requiring the parentheses. > > I've always hated that methods are treated so differently from subs.
Beware the hobgoblin of foolish consistency :-) > Perl is designed > to make the *programmer*'s life easier, not the implementer's. Another good argument for requiring the parentheses! -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
