On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:

> >   rename -v => 1, $orig, $new;
> 
> It's already being done:
> 
>      rename $orig, $new :verbose;
> 
>      sub rename($orig, $new, +$verbose) {
>          say "Renaming `$orig' to `$new'" if $verbose;
>          ...
>      }

I'm not sure if I understand correctly: pardon me if I'm dumb, but it 
seems to me that this has to do with user-defined subs. I was rather 
thinking to reasonable (but modificable) defaults for builtin functions...


Michele
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